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How can I get community service?

How can I get over this one stump before community service?

  • I love helping others and I want to be a nurse , I am going to be and people who are really close describe me as being caring and nice. I have never done community service before honestly(That I can remember other than a Halloween thing for some little kids when I was in the 7th grade and I can't even remember how that went and singing for people at a nursing home when I was a Girlscout that made me cry x-x..)I am a senior and my guidance counselor has a lot of things for us seniors to do and she had some community service things for us to sign up for and I signed up for it. We are going to the school over from our school it's a school for children with disabilities , I went in there before when I was in the band we would march over there and play for them and I cried basically and felt sad to see people like that especially little kids.. We are going there to clean their wheelchairs but I don't like dirt and I am sort of paraniod but I know that it is about helping them and nothing to do with me. How can I remove the whole " ew, dirt" from my mind because I feel that my need to help them is much greater than my fear of dirt.

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    How can you be a nurse with such a phobia of dirt? You are going to be encountering a LOT of that in your job some day - every day. Volunteering In Pursuit of a Medical, Veterinary or Social Work Degree / Career http://www.coyotecommunications.com/stuff/medical_social.shtml

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Your question made me lol :) It's quite simple. Wear some clothes that are functional for work rather than appearance, be prepared to take a bath after working there (& repaint your nails lol), and practice the thing you fear. Go outside and stick your hands in dirt, and be sure to get dirt under your finger nails, oh and some on your face too. (have a dirt clod war with an 8 yr old boy, or a dog, for instance) Then wash up, go do your community service, and be happy that you were flexible & able to go outside of your comfort zone.

Jason Makin

Buy yourself a pair of rubber gloves

Ariaread

For me, I would ask the counselor if I could do something else. This is because when I was in Girl Scouts, the leader thought we should be of service to the community by going to a home for severely disabled kids and feeding them. Most had no control over their movements, drooled a lot, etc. I watched some of the scouts trying to feed drooling spastic children and I nearly threw up. I had to go outside for air and stayed there til the time was up. You have to get used to dirt because it's everywhere. But there are so many other places to volunteer: hospitals (candy stripers), schools (tutor), churches always need help, so does Youth With A Mission and Teen Missions. For more ideas, contact United Way. And thanks for your loving caring heart; there IS a place for you nd God is proud of you!!

DeAnne

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