If you think students spend all their spare time avoiding studying, going out with their mates and having a good time then you'd be right. Well our student bloggers do anyway. While they assure us they don't slack on the study, they've got a lot to answer for when it comes to enjoying themselves while volunteering.

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Thursday Nov 02, 2006

Random Stuff (sorry -- my brain is frozen form the cold)

Hi everyone - just like to say how cold is it?? i hate winter.

Updates from the Race Hike - our cadets came last - in fact they were overtaken - but it was lots of fun and they all enjoyed staying up until 2am. Oh yes -and i finally got my last GCSE result back (it had to be remarked for the second time) and my final results are 5 A* and 10 A -- see volunteering doesn't mess up your stuides whatever you school/college might have to say.

Ne way, your probably thinking that it muct be really hard to volunteer and that you don't get any rewards from it. How wrong you are. It is so easy to volunteer, you don't have to do anything complicated just find soemthing you enjoy, feel passionate about and what to help, and then look at how you can help. It's that easy.

As for the rewards, there are loads. Everytime you help soemone, make a difference even a tiny one you will feel good about yourself. Knowing you have actually done something nice for someone, that helped them to be happier is a really good feeling. Also - that CV your going to have write sooner or later is pretty hard to fill unless you have some extra curicular activities. Just think how good it will look to have volunteer work and football/plays an instrument rather than just the football. Employers, univercities, colleges, reward people all pay a lot of attention to soemthing like that, putting you at an advantge. how can that be bad?

Voluntering is nothing like school or anything like that. It does take work yes, sometimes more than others, but teh rewards are so much greater. You never know if you volunteer you might recieve a volunteer award just like Moira (campaigners blog). You will meet loads of new interesting people, and have friends for life. It's not difficult at all, i promise.

till next time
Sammy x x

Posted by Sammy ( 8:36 PM )
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