Bridget's preliminary

This service project excites me. Where I am from, we liked to live in a "bubble". Many people worried about themselves and only themselves. We didn't like to acknowledge that there were a lot of people needing help in our community, people who were not as fortunate. Although I did a lot of service through school, I still wish I could have done more. I am excited and kind of nervous for tomorrow. I am excited to do some more service in the Sioux City community and just be able to lend a hand, even if it's in the slightest. I think it will be fun and hopefully a great learning experience. Habitat for Humanity is a great organization and I am lucky I will finally be able to do service for them, I just wish it didn't have to take 18 years for me to get involved in their organization

Jake's preliminary post

I am excited to get out and do this project because it is one of our last things that we need to get done for this class before break. The thing that I am not to excited for though is that we will be cleaning up a garden so we will be outside and sometimes it can be cold in Iowa in December. One thing I am wondering about is what kind of garden we will be cleaning out, since we are helping the community center I wondered if it will be a community garden or if we will actually be going to a person's house to assist them. Overall I am ready to do this project.

Abby's preliminary post

I am pretty excited for this project. It is not my favorite kind of service but since we had schedule conflicts this worked out best for us. I like working with homeless people best but this will be fun still. I know that even though it may not seem like it's doing much, it really is. We are reallynhelping the people who work at the community center because we are making their job easier so they can teach English classes and work on other projects. I am nervous because I am not very good at physical labor but I will do my best. I am also nervous because we didn't get the time to be super organized so it's a little hectic for my taste. Otherwise I am excited to do service because it is my favorite thing to do and to talk about.

Proposal: Abby, jake, Bridget, dom

For our service project we will be goin to the community center on December second at 2 pm to 4 pm. We will be cleaning up their garden and getting it ready for the winter as well as some various other projects they need done that they will tell us about when we get there. One of our major problems is that we don't know all of what they are going to have us do. We were informed that we will be doing little other things that will really help out the people that run the center so they can focus on other things, but we are unsure of what these tasks are. Notknowing this preventsus from preparing ourselves for these things. Another obstacle we have is the fact that when cleaning up the garden we might be working outside and it's cold. We will overcome both these obstacles by dressing for going outside.

In spetember after our first paper I wrote thAt I thought I wrote about meaning well but didn't go into depth as much as a should have. For this third paper I think I was better at depth and explination. There really wasn't much meaning to describe so I can't really compare on that, but this paper was much improved on the first one. I had more organized analysis and better balance between statement and analysis. It was easier to understand and more efficient.

Event blog post 5

I participated in the canned food drive for Doyle Leadership scholarship students. This was on Sunday,November 13th at 2:00 in the afternoon. We were split up into groups by random drawing of numbers. Then we were assigned an area in the neighborhoods surrounding Briar Cliff. We went there with our group and collected food for the food pantry from the houses. I was with a group of a few freshman and then upperclassmen. We totaled probably eight people for our area. The week before the soccer team went around and passed out fliers telling the people we would be coming around to collect so some people had bags of food out on their porch all ready for us. The houses that didn't have stuff out already we had to go knock on their door and ask if they had anything. Our group was in two cars and so the other car got there first and knocked on some door and people didn't have anything to give because hey couldn't afford it so we went do the other half of our area where people were better off. We split up and went door to door. A lot of people weren't home but one guy particularly stuck out to me. He told us that his wife was busy so he had to pass on giving anything. That bothered me because it was clearly an excuse and nit a very good one. Could he not go and get one can himself? If he could afford it then just say that you don't have anything. The person I was walking with agreed with me on this. We all thought it was for a good cause but they should have chosen the area more carefully because part of ours wasn't financially stable enough to give. This situation is similar to when I volunteered for the salvation army. My friend and I rang the bell for an hour at one of the red buckets. We were outside a store entrance in a mall in a very nice part of town. A lot of people gave and we collected over one hundred dollars in the hour we stood there. Some people really didn't have cash on them because a lot of people use a credit card especially around the holiday season and some people just had some change which the scrounged for us. Some people didn't even look at us or avoided walking by us. I thought that wasn't very nice because what's a coupled cents? And if you don't have it you don't have to give but you don't have to avoid us.

What would have happened if they had found the medical supplies on you?
What was the most interesting thing/most interesting person you saw there?