My summer volunteering consisted mostly of roaming around the shelves of our local library, helping children with thir needs and signing them up for the summer reading program. Encouraging young children to further their education through reading put a smile on my face and the bright faces of a few constant readers really put a spark in the light of my days. I hoped to be an encouragement to children to read but it seems as though my smile brought about even more in the children than just a need to obtain information from books. They seemed to really enjoy flipping each page to find a new adventure written upon it.
Patience is something I definately had to keep as every child is different and, with so many of them around, patience can trickle away quickly like water falling from a cliff. I have learned through my volunteering with children that the future of our brightest most encouraged children looks bright and that one person truly can make a difference in the life of a child. It was quite entertaining to even listen to the stories of the experienced librarians and hear their episodes of life.
I hope to once again volunteer at the library and bring smiles to children's faces once again next summer. There is more light in a happy child's eyes than there ever will be in the entire solar system.
Total hours: 15
Alex La Pierre
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