How do you understand community service?
The easy answer is that community service is the act of serving a community. Serving a community by providing the services they need, and specifically serving communities that are particularly disadvantaged. I understand community service to be much broader than the traditional definition, it can be simple positive personal habits, like not littering, or smiling at people, or it can be much larger and insitutional like the Red Cross or the Salvation Army. But if you are improving your community, any community, then I consider that community service, and good for you.
Why do you participate in CUSP?
...because I was interested in doing a 'social justice' oriented internship this summer and looking to live in a big city and wanting to be able to afford all this. So CUSP was a perfect match. It has allowed me to live in a wonderful city, with supportive friends, and work at an agency that needs me and wouldn't be able to pay me a wage.
What do you expect to learn?
This question is too much. There will be soooo many things that I'll learn that I cannot predict now. And I like that. I expect myself to learn a lot about the PEOPLE I will be living with (CUSPers!) and working with (staff and kids). I also expect to learn about the city, how to get around, the feel of the different neighborhoods, the best spots. And I expect to learn about myself of course. To learn how I rise and meet challenges, and how I become close with the staff and girls I work with.
The easy answer is that community service is the act of serving a community. Serving a community by providing the services they need, and specifically serving communities that are particularly disadvantaged. I understand community service to be much broader than the traditional definition, it can be simple positive personal habits, like not littering, or smiling at people, or it can be much larger and insitutional like the Red Cross or the Salvation Army. But if you are improving your community, any community, then I consider that community service, and good for you.
Why do you participate in CUSP?
...because I was interested in doing a 'social justice' oriented internship this summer and looking to live in a big city and wanting to be able to afford all this. So CUSP was a perfect match. It has allowed me to live in a wonderful city, with supportive friends, and work at an agency that needs me and wouldn't be able to pay me a wage.
What do you expect to learn?
This question is too much. There will be soooo many things that I'll learn that I cannot predict now. And I like that. I expect myself to learn a lot about the PEOPLE I will be living with (CUSPers!) and working with (staff and kids). I also expect to learn about the city, how to get around, the feel of the different neighborhoods, the best spots. And I expect to learn about myself of course. To learn how I rise and meet challenges, and how I become close with the staff and girls I work with.
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