Final Service Learning

I think i did well in service learning. I'm an average student at a high school, but i have very high expectations for myself. I think that joining the Darfur group was a major step up. I like helping people and with all the studies about Africa in Brasof's class helped me realized that there are more needy people than us. I also realized that us kid's can be ungrateful for what we have and we always look at the negatives instead of the positives. This is one of the ways service learning impacted me. I now tend to look at the good things not the bad and I'm grateful for what i have, and I'm not focusing on what i don't have because there are people who would love to have the things i have. When i heard about the situation in Darfur i immediately knew i wanted to help them because they are in terrible need of various things, such as natural resources and help to fight against refugees. If i was in charge of the service learning group, i have been sent out money and flip flops. I think that this is where i separate from everyone else. I wanted to send help the first day, but everyone seems to take it as a joke by not doing what they were supposed to do like people awareness and brochures and stuff. Even though this genocide has been going on a few years and the citizens haven't had any help for years, this is an open wide opportunity for people to make a difference in someone else's life and i don't feel as though we are taking advantage of it. I think that other and more people could get involved in saving Darfur and understand and contribute to what we are trying to do will make a huge difference for them as well as us.