Today (Friday, Oct. 19), I did my first service learning hours in the late morning hours at the St. Vincent DePaul Warehouse. My feeling going into this assignment was one time: Is this going to be worth my precious time, and will I even have time to do any of this service learning assignment. Coming into this assignment my goal was simple: to get this project done without it interfering with my very busy music life. My goal has now changed to using this as a way to relax and unwind from my busy life.
My life this semester has been constantly running from one thing to any other, and each of those things has been high intensity activities and rehearsals. One of the very first things I noticed when I began volunteering is that everything that goes on at St. Vincent DePaul Warehouse is done at a slow, relaxed pace. The workers use their time there to learn about each other and learn new things from the items they take in. My job was sorting books, and one of the things that the worker I was paired with often would do was look through the books she was sorting and pick out an interesting fact that she did not know before. Since she had not gone to college, sorting books was a way for her to continue learning in life. Something I noticed over all was that there were not strict things that the workers had to get done each day. There were guidelines, but it was not absolutely necessary for each task to be complete by the end of the day. As usual for this semester, my Tri-College Free Day was not a day off, and it was just as busy as a normal Friday with rehearsals and service learning. When I showed up to volunteer, I was again running from one hectic, and actually working in a slow paced, low-challenge environment was extremely relaxing for me, and it relieved a lot of the stress I had coming into it.
~Kristin P.
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