Thursday, April 29, 2010
Service Learning-New Orleans
Over spring break 2010 I went to New Orleans to help rebuild houses that were damaged from Hurricane Katrina. Through Volunteer UCF there is a program called Alternative Spring Break. This is who I traveled to New Orleans with. It had been 4.5 years since the hurricane but the city is still in desperate need of help and repairs. This was a really great and rewarding experience to participate in. We completed a total of 36hours of working. It was great when we got to meet the homeowners whose houses we were fixing. It made it so much more worthwhile to see the looks on their faces. If I wasn't graduating Alternative Spring Break is something that I would participate in again.
Service Learning-Tunnel Of Oppression
I realize that I haven't posted enough on the blog throughout the semester like I should have to document my service learning. Therefore I am about to spam everyone with extra blog postings just to make sure that my grade is secure in this course.
On March 3 I worked with the UCF Counseling Center on the Tunnel of Oppression. My job was to work the table to sign in volunteers. The Tunnel of Oppression was a great tool to raise students awareness about various discriminations and oppressions. Some of the areas that they addressed were: classism, lookism, domestic violence, racism, heterosexism, and religious intolerence. I appreciated the domestic violence portion of the tunnel because they addressed the fact that men can be the victims of domestic violence and that violence can be verbal. I think that overall this project was successful. I am glad I got to be a part of it.
On March 3 I worked with the UCF Counseling Center on the Tunnel of Oppression. My job was to work the table to sign in volunteers. The Tunnel of Oppression was a great tool to raise students awareness about various discriminations and oppressions. Some of the areas that they addressed were: classism, lookism, domestic violence, racism, heterosexism, and religious intolerence. I appreciated the domestic violence portion of the tunnel because they addressed the fact that men can be the victims of domestic violence and that violence can be verbal. I think that overall this project was successful. I am glad I got to be a part of it.
Monday, April 26, 2010
SL Posts
Since last week was innnnsane, I'll do two posts.
We had our fashion show on 4/15. I thought it went very smoothly. It was educational and I'm pretty sure our local business partners made money. It was great publicity for them, definitely. I think with more time, we could make this an annual thing.
Last week and this week, we are gathering names and addresses to send thank you cards to our sponsors/partners. They helped out immensely with donations and it's good to know we have local businesses that we can support knowing they are sweatshop free. Yayy!
We had our fashion show on 4/15. I thought it went very smoothly. It was educational and I'm pretty sure our local business partners made money. It was great publicity for them, definitely. I think with more time, we could make this an annual thing.
Last week and this week, we are gathering names and addresses to send thank you cards to our sponsors/partners. They helped out immensely with donations and it's good to know we have local businesses that we can support knowing they are sweatshop free. Yayy!
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