This service experience was important for the common good because it gives those people that rely on others that helping hand. It is good because you are doing something that you don’t have to do and it benefits others instead of yourself. Not many sacrifices had to be made to ensure dignity because it was already present throughout the YMCA, but I think for me maybe the biggest sacrifice was patience. For me working with the older people who are kind of slower was difficult but I did well and worked with them, even if I had to show them 5 times but that was ok and I understood.
The rules that are put in place to ensure that people are treated with dignity were probably just to be patient. But other than that the YMCA was really just counting on us that we would treat them with respect and show them things 10 times if they needed it. But there were no real rules put up for us to follow. The things that I learned there was defiantly patience, I can’t say it enough, it was at time frustrating but I worked through it. I know getting frustrated with old people doesn’t sound too nice but it does happen when you’re trying to teach them things about computers, and they were good people and before the class started we would go over and hang out with them and talk and some of them were pretty funny. And I can apply this to life with my peers and neighbors because sometimes you run into problems with others and with patience alone you can go a long way, but also with the skill of teaching you can help people learn new things if they aren’t understanding something, and that’s a very important skill.This service experience was important for the common good because it gives those people that rely on others that helping hand. It is good because you are doing something that you don’t have to do and it benefits others instead of yourself. Not many sacrifices had to be made to ensure dignity because it was already present throughout the YMCA, but I think for me maybe the biggest sacrifice was patience. For me working with the older people who are kind of slower was difficult but I did well and worked with them, even if I had to show them 5 times but that was ok and I understood. The rules that are put in place to ensure that people are treated with dignity were probably just to be patient. But other than that the YMCA was really just counting on us that we would treat them with respect and show them things 10 times if they needed it. But there were no real rules put up for us to follow. The things that I learned there was defiantly patience, I can’t say it enough, it was at time frustrating but I worked through it. I know getting frustrated with old people doesn’t sound too nice but it does happen when you’re trying to teach them things about computers, and they were good people and before the class started we would go over and hang out with them and talk and some of them were pretty funny. And I can apply this to life with my peers and neighbors because sometimes you run into problems with others and with patience alone you can go a long way, but also with the skill of teaching you can help people learn new things if they aren’t understanding something, and that’s a very important skill.
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