It’s so easy to get bored with your service site. I was definitely reaching the point where I was just going with the flow, everyday was beginning to feel like the last and I was just getting tired with service. This week definitely changed that.
This week something crazy happened. A boy band came to the Boys & Girls Club. It was like I had stepped into a time machine and gone straight to a concert for a 90s boys band during the era of NYSNC and the Backstreet Boys.
The boys from the band were all in 5th grade and younger. They were all wearing identical lilac dress shirts and vests and had names like “Ice” and “Little G”. At first all of the kids were more than a little hesitant about the boy band coming, but everything changed when the band started handing out roses to the girls in the crowd. The next thing the rest of the staff and I know we have over 50 screaming girls obsessively trying to swarm the five boys from the band. The girls spent the next two hours chasing “Ice” and the rest of the boys from the band around the auditorium and bragging about how they were going to date the boys in the band. I don’t really know who was more shocked: the staff who had to act as bodyguards for the boy band, the boys from the band or the poor boys at the club who didn’t know what they were in for and practically ran out of the room to get away from the screaming girls.
This week I also started volunteering at the Border Collies Rescue. It was a nice change of pace. Before this week I had never interacted with dogs very much. My family didn’t get a dog until I was already in college and it’s only a small terrier so it’s not much work. At BCR I let out dogs, cleaned dogs, and cleaned up after so many dogs. Ani’s dog CJ also dragged me around on an agility course.
My experiences this week have definitely reminded me of something important about service: that it’s so easy to just go with the flow. This past week was a huge reality check for me. It’s helped me to realize how important it is to go out of my way and be truly engaged in the community that I’m serving.
This week I also started volunteering at the Border Collies Rescue. It was a nice change of pace. Before this week I had never interacted with dogs very much. My family didn’t get a dog until I was already in college and it’s only a small terrier so it’s not much work. At BCR I let out dogs, cleaned dogs, and cleaned up after so many dogs. Ani’s dog CJ also dragged me around on an agility course.
My experiences this week have definitely reminded me of something important about service: that it’s so easy to just go with the flow. This past week was a huge reality check for me. It’s helped me to realize how important it is to go out of my way and be truly engaged in the community that I’m serving.
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