Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Multi-Faceted Volunteer Day
As I sit here procrastinating due to some work that I need to get done, I am catching up on blogs and reflecting on my day. Thinking back to this evening, I covered a lot of volunteer ground.
4:30pm - Arrived home from work to prepare for the evening's activities. Spent time reviewing a homework assignment with our Exchange Student from Norway.
Group: EF Foundation
5:00pm - Left the house to coach my daughters' volleyball team.
Group: US Youth Volleyball League
6:30pm - Dropped the girls off at home, picked up Celeste & a friend to drive to Anaheim for Girl Scout "Older Girl" leader training.
Group: Girl Scouts of America
9:45pm - Arrive home to continue the work that I was not able to finish earlier when I left early for volleyball, etc. I have a demo with my customer from Sweden early tomorrow morning and I have to make sure that everything is ready to show!
Lee / Tina / Shoo (probably a large percentage of my reading audience!): Sorry that I missed our WoW session tonight. I forgot about the training that I had to attend to become an official Girl Scout leader.
Not exactly solving the world's social problems, but doing my little part to help others when and where I can. I know that most of you reading this have similar stories. What are your favorite volunteer organizations?
4:30pm - Arrived home from work to prepare for the evening's activities. Spent time reviewing a homework assignment with our Exchange Student from Norway.
Group: EF Foundation
5:00pm - Left the house to coach my daughters' volleyball team.
Group: US Youth Volleyball League
6:30pm - Dropped the girls off at home, picked up Celeste & a friend to drive to Anaheim for Girl Scout "Older Girl" leader training.
Group: Girl Scouts of America
9:45pm - Arrive home to continue the work that I was not able to finish earlier when I left early for volleyball, etc. I have a demo with my customer from Sweden early tomorrow morning and I have to make sure that everything is ready to show!
Lee / Tina / Shoo (probably a large percentage of my reading audience!): Sorry that I missed our WoW session tonight. I forgot about the training that I had to attend to become an official Girl Scout leader.
Not exactly solving the world's social problems, but doing my little part to help others when and where I can. I know that most of you reading this have similar stories. What are your favorite volunteer organizations?
Labels: Exchange Student, Family, Scouts, Volleyball
# posted by - Rob @ 10:49 PM 
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i read your blog too! My favorite Organization is any organization! If it needs help i enjoy helping! i'd do a tropp myself but I wont be around long enough or have enough time to be able to raise one. I am doing a reader program so i am happy about that. I am thinking about doing a "Big SisteR" program....its good you help the world needs it
Thanks for the update! :) I know that there are others that read this beyond who I mentioned, but I am not expecting a really wide audience!
With your job, it seems like it would be incredibly hard to have a regular volunteer position. Don't you basically have to be ready to go where you are told to with very little notice?
For me, I have a job that requires travel off-and-on. Unfortunately, the "on" times seem to be when I have the most conflict with my volunteer work. For example, the Volleyball season is only 8 weeks long with 2 meetings per week. Of these 16 meetings, I have to miss at least 4 due to work travel.
I was previously involved in Boy Scouts of America too. Since Andrew is an adult now, I have shifted to other groups. However, while there I did a number of volunteer jobs. Towards the end, I was the Committee Chairman for the troop. Fortunately, I shared this job with another troop mom. I had to drop the position when my job required me to be in Arizona every week for around 5 months straight. It made it difficult to attend the meetings, do the planning, etc. If I had not had a co-leader then it would have put the group into a really bad spot.
Hence the comment: I do what I can. Sounds like you are doing the same!
With your job, it seems like it would be incredibly hard to have a regular volunteer position. Don't you basically have to be ready to go where you are told to with very little notice?
For me, I have a job that requires travel off-and-on. Unfortunately, the "on" times seem to be when I have the most conflict with my volunteer work. For example, the Volleyball season is only 8 weeks long with 2 meetings per week. Of these 16 meetings, I have to miss at least 4 due to work travel.
I was previously involved in Boy Scouts of America too. Since Andrew is an adult now, I have shifted to other groups. However, while there I did a number of volunteer jobs. Towards the end, I was the Committee Chairman for the troop. Fortunately, I shared this job with another troop mom. I had to drop the position when my job required me to be in Arizona every week for around 5 months straight. It made it difficult to attend the meetings, do the planning, etc. If I had not had a co-leader then it would have put the group into a really bad spot.
Hence the comment: I do what I can. Sounds like you are doing the same!
For me - I'm currently still the Service Unit Manager for my area. I no longer have a troop, however, so I don't volunteer to help with things that I'd need a troop to do (like put on Cookie Rally or whatever).
I volunteer in my TOPS club as the contest chairwoman.
I haven't yet gotten very involved with church again, but I expect there will be something coming up soon, since Connor is going through his religious education now (and seeming to get it!). Same deal with Special Olympics. Once he's in that, I expect to be volunteering there too.
There are always opportunities.
I volunteer in my TOPS club as the contest chairwoman.
I haven't yet gotten very involved with church again, but I expect there will be something coming up soon, since Connor is going through his religious education now (and seeming to get it!). Same deal with Special Olympics. Once he's in that, I expect to be volunteering there too.
There are always opportunities.
Just the board of Directors for Lake Cuyamaca Recreation and Park district, User's orking Group for Dept. of Homeland Security, and instructor for CERT (Citizens Emergency Response Team)then some stuff at the kids' schools. Reading the other comments makes me feel like I could be doing more!
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