Reflective Essay On Service Learning

In the past three weeks I’ve learned that service learning can be a great time, but only if you make it that. Service learning can be a fun learning experience if you talk to people and try to make it fun for yourself, on the other hand it can be just the opposite. Without talking and meeting new people service learning won’t be any fun. To get the most out of service learning it requires one to seek meeting new people and making new friends. After all, one article from the Huffington Post states, “Volunteering brings all walks of life together and no matter your personality, interests, or background, you 're bound to connect with another good Samaritan like yourself. There is no telling who you may meet, or what sort of impact they could have on your life, and this brings possibly one of the most exciting aspects to volunteering.” (The Huffington Post) On my first day of my three week service learning experience, we were immediately greeted by a man with long hair, a huge beard,

We started off with simple masks. With just cardboard, knives, and staples we all made our own masks. Some finished their masks with paint and other products, while others put them to the side to work on bigger things that had to be done. I moved on to make ghost, the ghost were made out of careen wrap and tape. First you would wrap a body part in the wrap, then you would put tape all around that. Next you cut it off with scissors and tape it back up. Once you have all the body parts you staple it together and have a ghost. I never thought something that looked so cool would be so simple to make. The problem I encountered while making these ghost is I was just working. I wasn’t meeting anyone knew and making friends. I was just sitting in the basement wrapping myself in tape. I realized that I needed to get the full experience, so in the coming days I decided to work on something different, out of the