Service Learning Reflection

Throughout my years in high school service learning has always been important, in that it helped me to broaden my skills involving leadership, career, and helped me realize the importance of giving back to the community. A significant event that I was able to perform service learning at was on Service Saturday’s at the Garden of the B’s. The activities done at the Garden of the B’s were learning the methods for planting specific plants, as well as understanding how to properly water them. In addition, while helping Mr. Jung, the environmental science teacher, it was appalling to realize how this vision and dream of how the garden would look like soon became tangible. As, with the planting of various plants the garden was able to really

For example, with this garden it was important to note the amount of non-students helping out during Service Saturdays. There was in fact a vast amount of parents, staff, and former alumni all taking time out of their days to help the school garden flourish and live up to its potential. That being said, I vividly remember the feeling of accomplishment, and how heartwarming it was to realize that the success of the garden only came, because our community took the initiative and made it all happen.

Secondly, it was interesting to note how implemented various life and career skills were in this community project. One of the most important life skills I learning at the Garden of the B’s was the importance of hard work. I learned this by being able to realize just how far along this garden came from the morning, when there was no plants, to being full of various beautiful plants. It was very refreshing to see a project have such an impact on me, and help me to further skills that will be crucial to me in the future. This is why this specific project was so important to me, because of the amount of valuable lessons it was able to teach me, and how I can utilize these lessons for