Ghandi Day
- This was my first service learning day. I did not know what I was going to be doing neither where I was going to go. It started around 8:00 A.M. in Wolfson campus, building three. Everyone took something so we could have a nice breakfast and we could be ready for the long day that was waiting for us. In the same building we had a little presentation about the Dream Act, that some of us had participated in. I worked with friend to make a video about the Dream Act by sending him some pictures. By the expression of their faces, I could see everyone enjoyed the video and it was really touching.
- Then some of us decided to go to the roots in the city garden, and others went to Lotus house. I decided to go to the garden, with a couple of other friends. We went in Daniela's car, and even though we got a little lost, we finally found the place. We started off by planting, and cleaning. The overall idea of our first day was to beautify the garden. Finally, I saw many people asking for a bag of what we were collecting and I felt pleased. After that, around 3:00 P.M. we went to the U
- At the beginning, when we were driving around the streets of overtown, I felt a little scared, since it was my first time in that neighborhood. After, I felt a little more secure since we were doing this service as a group. Later on I was a little hungry so I was feeling kind of tired. When we got to UM, I felt happy to see how many people were involved in this service learning activity. At the end, I felt very happy of knowing how I had contributed to the community that day.
- In this event, we were not the only volunteers but there were also other students from other organizations, still being part of Ghandi Day. There was not a big variety of food, which made me feel kind of sad, since I wasn't expecting that at all. However, the final presentations from the different students made me feel really glad about my efforts.
- At the end of my day I realized how the people in overtown live. This was something very new to me, since we were always talking about this in class, but I never had the opportunity of experience it.I wanted to go and experience the community since as a Little Havana resident I was somehow offended by the many characteristics given by some of my classmates of my enclave.
- After all, I concluded that for the overtown citizens, their neighborhood it’s not a “bad” neighborhood, probably just how I feel about mine. There is some truth, however to the stereotypes. The drugs, alchohol, and crime environment is there, however, I figured out one must never talk or conclude anything without proves.
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