2nd Entry

           Another month has past, and Christmas is approaching fast (Yay!) and another month of collecting cans with Mr. Lundrigan is in the progress. Though the weather is random at times, seeing it snowed early in the month and the weather is warming up approaching its end,  the job still has to be done. No matter what the weather is like you will still find me and Mr. Lundrigan driving door to door collecting the cemetery cans. If the weather is wet we dress accordingly to fit the weather conditions and plan a route to make the job quick to avoid being stuck in the weather for too long. As I mentioned last entry, Mr. Lundrigan carefully plans the houses to go to and not to go to and our route, but as I noticed lately he also plans with the conditions and statuses of several things in mind, which a good leader should do in a group for every plan or activity. Another thing that Mr. Lundrigan does is he keeps track of everything about the cans and the people who partake in the program. For instance, whenever I bring back a can to the car, he asks me to mark the name of the person who gave it to me on the can, and then he checks the name off a list on his clip board. He does this to keep status of who had there cans ready or not or if that person was home or not. Any houses that we were unable to collect a can from that day(for whatever the reason) are unchecked so we can plan another can collection on a separate day. This shows and demonstrates how organized Mr. Lundrigan is, and is also a very good skill for a leader to posses as it can come in handy for every situation. I now keep myself more organized after learning from Mr. Lundrigan, keeping track of my homework better and school activities (and recently the Christmas gifts I have purchased and those I need to get). Anyways, this is all for this months entry and the next will be sometime around mid January. Happy Holidays!

Sincerly,
Nicholas Martin

First Entry

       Hey, I'm Nicholas Martin and I'm proud to say I'm a Horizons Student. As a Horizons Student, I am required to do this blog on how volunteer activity helps develop my leadership skills. Where I live, there is not a lot of volunteer activities offered, but I was fortunate to find one. For the last two years I have been helping Mr. Patrick Lundrigan collect the cemetery cans around my community for my church. Once a month, me and Mr. Lundrigan drive around the community, from door to door, collecting the filled cemetery cans and delivering the new empty ones. I enjoy doing this, and I'm glad to volunteer for this. It's a very good feeling knowing your doing a good deed for your community, and I'm happy to support my church. The activity helps in different ways to further develop my leadership skills, and each way I have observed from Mr. Lundrigan over the last few months. For starters, it helps me to learn to plan ahead of my actions as Mr. Lundrigan does. The morning of the day me and Mr. Lundrigan are to collect and deliver the cans, Mr. Lundrigan carefully plans out our route and the houses to visit and the ones not to visit. If he didn't do this, it would be a very unorganized activity and would take us longer with all the confusion. Anyways, this is it for this entry, and I'll be sure to post my next entry sometime in December.

Have a good one,
Nicholas Martin