Narrative Essay On Community Service

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I would never have thought that community service could be such a reward experience. As the oldest child and growing without my mom, I never had the opportunity of having someone that could help me with my homework or help me when I needed something. Since I came to the United States six years ago I was definitely on my own considering my mom didn’t know English to help me. From this moment forward, I can say I am very proud of myself for being the first person in my family to pursue a college degree and for all the things I have accomplished without having someone that could advise when I was doing something wrong. I figured that with community services I could meet new people and take advantage of the experience I could get to discover what …show more content…

By being involved in these types of events, I discovered that I love to help others and my award is given by just making other people smile and make them forget about those sad moments they are going through. I knew this was something I wanted to keep doing no matter what my next step in life was. I remember, I made a presentation with one of my classmates about domestic violence. We went to present to a Domestic Violence center called “La Rosa” where they help women to believe in themselves and also they give them courage to not let anybody to beat them for not reason. Our presentation was based on how kids were the main affected by these actions. After one year of our visit to La Rosa, I found in Walmart to one of the women who were there during our presentation and she told me how thankful she was with me because I helped her to see her life with more love and that now she was able to feel very valuable and proud of herself. Those features are the ones that make me feel so passionate about helping my community. I graduated high school in 2014 and I was part of the f 25% percent of my class and I also was awarded with a gold cord by being part of the 10 students who participated in more than 100 hours of community services during our senior

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