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Wednesday May 10, 2006

favourite volunteer experience

......seems like others are taking up this topic - so I'll plunge in, too.

My favourite volunteer experience, overall, has definitely been befriending children and young people up near Edinburgh.

My favourite volunteer moment? That would be with one of the kids I befriended. When I first started with this young man I couldn't get him to do anything beyond bowling, McDonald's and a local soft-play club. NOTHING else.

fast foreward two years.... Everyone knows about the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, right? It's amazing. It's the coolest month ever in Edinburgh!!! I highly recommend checking it out. In addition to all the cool gigs and plays and music and such, some groups offer workshops. Every summer, as soon as the programme came out, I'd comb it looking for fun, unusual things to try. I called up my kiddo and said, 'do ya trust me? How's about trying a breakdancing class?' Without hesitation, the cheeky monkey says, 'I will if you will.'

The boy I had met two years earlier would NEVER have even considered it for the briefest of moments.

I'll just say it left me with a warm-n-fuzzy feeling.

And, two months later, after the class, it left me with a sore tailbone. It left the boy with endless ammunition for harassing me about my uselessness at breakdancing!

Posted by Dana ( 11:11 PM )
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