Alexandria's House

For the English 1A service learning activity, the class had to volunteer eight hours at Alexandria’s House. We can volunteer anytime throughout the fall semester, but I haven’t volunteered yet because I scheduled myself to help on Saturdays in November. I plan to volunteer in the ESL program. I don’t know what to expect when I help out at Alexandria’s House. When the class was told that we were required to do at least eight hours of service, I wasn’t too excited because I was thinking that I don’t have time because of my other classes and work. Then, we had to schedule ourselves on the days we like to work but there was certain amount of people that can work at a time. I think volunteering at Alexandria’s will be different from working at a hospital because when I volunteered last year at a hospital for my sociology class, I didn’t get to interact with anyone besides the workers in the department. All I did in the hospital was filed, stapled, and copied papers. When I get the chance to help in Alexandria, I think I will have a better experience volunteering because I like to feel like I actually helped someone that benefited from it. Instead of only dealing with papers that makes the doctors and nurses’ lives easier, Alexandria’s volunteer program will be interesting. Overall, I’m curious and kind of eager to see what will happen when my first day comes.