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Final Blog Post

Overall, I thought my service project went awesome.  I learned many things from ways to help people, learning new skills all while helping kids.  From my many days volunteering, I volunteered for about 20 hours.  One of my favorite moments was the baseball game we played for the children that are in wheelchairs and can’t navigate big crowds.  It was incredible to play and also see the children’s reactions as it was like a real MLB game.  A few setbacks that I encountered was finding time, with my work it makes it tough to take time off but it was well worth it.  Another setback was the fact that sometimes it’s very hard to help children with disabilities.  You always have to have the fact that they can’t do somethings in the back of your head.  I learned a big skill and that is how to help people you don’t know.  I learned this from everyday I had volunteered.  Another thing I learned was just the experience of helping your community.  It makes you feel good inside and you feel extremely proud.  Overall I think I should receive a B+ on this project, some of my posts were late but they were extremely in depth and showed my progress and my experiences over the last months.

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