Service

Hi All,

Hope everyone had a good week. Classes started on Wednesday and the class reading assignments have already started to pile up but hey what would college life be without them. I am excited to have this be a full week of classes so I can get back into a routine. For me routines are really nice and help me to keep a low stress level.

Anyway, I wanted to take this blog post to reflect back to what I did last Sunday. As some of you may not know every year as part of freshman orientation all the incoming freshman along with community members and upperclassmen participate in the Finucane service project. This service project was a part of orientation my freshman year that I really enjoyed!

This was my fourth year participating in the Finucane service project. We went to a community garden where we helped them clear bush out from around fruit trees that are growing. These fruit trees are for anyone in the community to come pick the fruit from which I think is a really neat concept. Father Curran, the President of Rockhurst even came with our group. I really think it is so neat that father still participates in the service project. Make sure to check out the pictures at the bottom of this post from our service project site.

I think it is really a great way for upperclassmen to set an example for the freshman going along with them to do service projects. A lot of the sports teams and greek organizations on campus also participate in the Finucane service project.

What a great way to instill one of the Rockhurst's core values in the freshman by doing this service project. It also introduces them to a wide variety of organizations in the community where they can go to do service learning projects for classes in the years to come. Since the freshman go to sites by orientation groups likely they have friends in other groups that went to other sites so that each one after sharing their experiences with their friends in other groups now knows about 4 or 5 places to go to volunteer in the community at least.\

Reflection is also big here at Rockhurst. To end our time at the service sites the orientation group leaders, lead the group in a reflection which is a really nice thing to do because it can be so easy at times to loose sight of who you are doing the service for.

Quote for the week: "True courage is taking another small step each day toward achieving your vision"