Community service

The community service I accomplished was an assortment of things, from helping at a school and passing out clothes and food to digging a trench for a low income mobile home park in cottonwood. The more lengthy of the two was passing out clothes and turkeys for thanksgiving, along with running around town getting donations from the various establishments for the school I was helping.


The trench was one of the most fun things I helped with, I had a few friends helping with the digging process. There were a few complications from broken pipes and other things underground that hampered our progress. The trench was for a electrical line. One of the tenants tried to drill a post hole of some sort and he ended up pulling the electrical line out of the ground. So we had to dig a trench to be able to lay down new line for the electrical system. Along the way there was some other lines and a few railway ties buried that we had to go either under or over if they were low enough. But in the end we accomplished it in two days had fun digging it even though the last day it rained so the dirt was heavier than the day before so that slowed us down.


The school hours I worked at Sycamore School with my Grandmother Rina Ford. I used her pick-up to gather the donations such as the turkeys for thanksgiving and other things such as donations form places such as Target, Wal-mart and Costco. The donations were things such as Clothes, shoes, and other necessities that the needy children needed at her school. The one thing that sticks in my mind was when I was at Sycamore School passing out turkeys to the families who wouldn't have anything for thanksgiving otherwise. I was amazed how many turkeys we had, all donated from Costco. Within a few hours we only had a couple left and those were soon snapped up by families with a whole heartily grin and a thank you. Some of the families my grandmother knew personally which made me smile as she introduced me to them, most of them already knew of me, which made it all worth while.

One reason I chose the things I did was because I knew what I would be doing, I wasn't jumping in without knowing what I was going to do. The trench I did because I was helping the parks tenants and it was an excuse to hang out with my friends, and to get my mind off of a few things. The Sycamore School gave me a reason to meet some of the families my grandmother helps out so much. Most of the families that I met already knew about me. I met a few employers that would of liked to hire me because of who my grandmother was, which made me smile. I've helped my grandmother with things before but nothing like passing out turkeys that thanksgiving.

With the work I did at the trench and the school I learned that helping others can actually make you feel better about your self. I see now why my grandma helps all those people, and why shes almost always in a good mood. I learned that my life isn't quite as rushed as I thought it was. I can take time to help others, but now with a job that takes up ninety percent of my time I have been unable to help my grandmother out again.