Process

We started our community service at the nearby dog shelter about a few months ago, and a few of us still continue to go there every week. Anyways, the main thing we were doing at the doggie pound was helping out a small part of the community's stray dogs so they have a chance of getting adopted by training them and help keeping their environment clean.

All seven of us - Michelle, Clark, Tiffany, Angela, Katherine and I were helping the dog shelter do its chores - cleaning out the daily load of animal excrete, walking the dogs, and almost always helping to get the wild dog-playground-shelter neat from all the playful dogs there.

Overall, I think the tasks we were sent to perform in helping the dogs were all rather easy, for the exception of having to work in an enviroment with a very heavy stench of dog excretement. We were also in time to see the shelter being moved to a bigger area, where the dogs can roam around in a huge place, although this also meant more work for us to manage.

Reflection/Aftermath

After our community service requirement was fullfilled, a few of us did not ever decide to go back anymore. Although there are a few people who only went to the pound for the homework grade, the rest of us are willing to go back and help out every week if we could - I think community service is a good thing to do, since it benifits one's own morale in regards of kindness and some of the TAS values that play a critical part of life.

By realizing that, I figured that communitiy service is a benificial act that helps people/anyone in need, and by doing this homework assignment, have a further grasp at knowing that community service is ALWAYS a positive act to perform - helping others in need is also helping yourself learn, and seeing happy faces (in our case, happy and loved puppies) are a good enough reason to keep our jobs as community helpers thoughout the year.

-(This is homework.. -_- )