I choose to join the Breast Cancer Walk in Prospect Park as my community service project. The walk was on October 16. We needed to walk 5 miles around the Prospect Park. The purpose of this walk is to do fundraising for breast cancer patients, inspirit the breast cancer survivors, and caution the publics to pay attention to breast cancer. I think this walk is not only influence our community, but have a wide effect on our society.
I don’t feel any surprise when I initially hear that I need to participant in the community service project, since I have participant in some community service projects throughout my high school years. Actually, it’s my second year to walk for the Breast Cancer Walk. So, I can tell some of my experience to my group member during the project.
I don’t regret to give my time and energy to others in this walk. I just take it as a morning exercise. I don’t think it cost me a lot. Honestly, I don’t think I can help them much either. However, I learn that the people around me are very engaging. Lots of people are dressing in pink and holding some support sites. The service site is also well decorated, that makes the whole atmosphere is very excited and energetic.
My most trying experience in the project is to try me best to walk through the whole 5 miles, even though I feel extremely tired after the first mile. However, I make it at last. This experience teaches me an old lesion again: Never give up. I don’t think this project is quite relating to my education. If you want me to point out some relationship, I may just say that the in both area, we need to have a good attitude. This project also relates to the “Leadership and Service” session, in terms of lots of people engaging in community service every year. The project does tell me this point. The people in the walk are countless. My community service experience also changes my thinking, in terms of team working. As we live in the same society, we need to work with people in lots of cases. And the community service well develops my skill in team working.
Overall, I quite satisfy with my experience, since I take part in this big event and people say that I can help others. I am looking forward participant in more community service during my college and adulthood as well, since I feel lots of people help me in this society, I need to give some feedback to my community.
Summing up, my service-learning experience is tired but quite sunny and warm.
