American Heritage Service Project

For American Heritage you have to do 10 hours of community service. I chose to volunteer at this place called Friday's Kids Respite. It's a place that families with special needs kids can drop their special need kid off on Friday's (and Thursday's I heard) for a few hours so they can go out, or spent time focusing on their other kids. I went last week and spent 4 hours there playing with the cutest little girl. Tonight I went and spent 3 hours with this hilarious boy that kept telling me that he hated me, but that he wanted to play with me anyway. We were pirates, digging in a sand box for buried treasure (an easter egg from some easter egg hunt from earlier in the week). We probably played in the sand box for 1 1/2 hours, which was hilarious. However, I will admit that this service project has made me realize how glad I am that I changed my major. Although I wouldn't have been teaching elementary special ed, it still would have been really really difficult.