Personal Writing: Volunteering At Summer Quest

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for admission, and figure out transportation and food cost.
It also taught me a lot about planning and time organization. I had to plan
months in advance, and fill in every second of the day with activities to
keep the students busy. Now I know that in the future when I am in the
real world, I can plan big events and pull them off successfully because of
this experience.
The second agency that I worked for was Parkway Preschool. This
agency has two types of programs. They call the first program "Moms Day
Out." This program allows parents who cannot afford, or do not have the
resources of proper child care, a chance to drop their kids off three times
a week from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The second program is a regular
preschool program running from Monday to Friday. I had the opportunity to
work with both programs during my volunteer work.
During my day at the program I would sit in with different classes
and help the teacher teach. I would read the children stories, sing ...

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of in a couple of days, but to my surprise it did
not. In fact, they began to become more zealous about my time at the
preschool, and would ask the teachers every day, "Is Mr. Jamie coming
today."
I soon began to wonder why all these male students were so excited
about me coming to the school. When I asked another teacher about it she
reveled something to me that broke my heart, and for the first time I began
to realize why these young boys clung to me so much. While all the kids
were eating their snacks, she pointed to each boy that had became attached
to me and began to tell their stories. She shared with me about each boy's
situation. It so happened that the boys that would stay ...

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