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
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ReplyDeleteIt's great to hear that you are helping Mr. Lundrigan. I imagine it was a little difficult to find a volunteer activity but you certainly prove that there are many different ways you can help your community.
ReplyDeleteIt's also fantastic that you are focusing on what you are learning through your acitivity. It's very important to be able to reflect on your leadership activities and you're doing a great job with it!
If you can, try to get some pictures for your next entry. It would be great to see you in action!
Keep up the great work! I can't wait to read your next entry.