Essays on Volunteer Experience

She smelled the rich, creamy sweetness aroma of the dulce de leche empanadas wafting through the air; its warm and inviting smell was a reminder that she was home. Home was where my new fond passion for food began. My passion for food and cooking began at an early age, as I was fascinated by…

Truth be told, I have not always known that I wanted to teach. Growing up I had some amazing teachers who showed me how much a good and creative teacher could inspire a classroom, but it never actually inspired me to think about teaching as a profession for myself. Despite always loving the company of…

Introduction For many generations, no one in my family had the chance to attend a university. In 2015, I was accepted into the University of Florida and became the first person in my family to pursue higher education. I am currently a Health Education and Behavior major with a concentration in health studies. I hope…

What is Zooniverse? The Zooniverse is a people-powered research platform that is made by volunteers and hundreds of thousands of people around the world. This platform allows people to come together to assist professional researchers. A great thing about Zooniverse is that anyone can be a researcher. People do not have to have a specific…

How many of you have ever been on a service trip, or know anyone how has taken part in a volunteer trip? If your hand went up you, or someone you know are one of the millions of young adults who have set out each year with the goal of making a positive impact on…

Introduction In the career startup I have covered the discovered phase. The second stage is to investigate which intends to new opening choices and experiences. In this paper, I will discuss about the two associations who provide volunteer opportunities where I could work in fu-ture and further it is related to my profession. I will…

Feeling like a scared Kindergartner, just preparing for the first day of school, I walked in to begin my volunteer experience. But what I thought was going to be the scariest event that I ever experienced, had taken on a new appearance. The feeling of fear, and the silence that accompanied it, was now replaced…

Volunteer Placement Paper: Jacksonville Health and Rehabilitation. During the course of this semester for this Introductory course, we were required to complete a volunteer placement in a Social Work Agency Facility. The purpose of this assignment was to provide us experience working directly with Social Work agencies that would give us valuable resources to be…

I am interested in helping the underrepresented population of men and women who struggle with mental illness; social and economic hardship that may prohibit them from fully functioning in society. I work with people that struggle everyday with their disability. Whether they struggle with depression or the severity of schizophrenia, I see uncle in each…

This past semester and school year I volunteered at the Central Florida Leadership Academy. This is a charter school about 20 minutes away towards down town Orlando. The school contained both middle school and high school students. I chose to complete my service with a high school math teacher because that is what I plan…