Indeed, shopping my latest fashion items also makes me feel good but in this situation volunteering makes me feeling even better :)
Today, I started my first day of volunteer work in helping people with literacy in Spanish literacy class. Fortunately, I found this volunteer work in my campus and I emailed the teacher offering a help for her class, Trust me, they will be glad to have your help. Volunteers are needed every where, in campus, in community, there a lot of opportunities to do voluntary work here. It's a big US culture.
Can you believe that I helped Spanish speaking immigrant to write and read? Spanish is not even my first language not even my second language. I do speak Spanish but I forget a lot of Spanish words because I never use it. But I'd love to help using my knowledge that I have.
Anyway, the teacher is Rita Moran, she's american but I think she's an english teacher for Hispanic people as well. I haven't gotten any chance to talk more about herself since we got very busy in the class. I helped some group of students to write properly, there were about 7 or 8 students in my group.
They are from El Savador and Nicaragua, most of them have been living in the US for minimum 8 years. Things that I love is I got attached easily with Hispanic people. I experienced living with Hispanic immigrant from Honduras in Granada, Spain. It was a precious experience living with them.
Sp hispanic students are very nice and warm and they treat me as family. I remember this kind of feeling, it was kind of Dejavu.
I'm just happy, happy, happy that I could help them, to contribute to their life, i do hope they can have better job and living, thats why community college are serving them, I'm glad I'm part of it.
Can't wait for the next meeting! I volunteer every Tuesday and Thursday at CCSF Mission Campus. Love it!
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