Habitat

Thursday, March 25 – Today at Habitat for Humanity I was to help my advisor, Hilary, set up and run one of the organization’s monthly meetings. This is why I came today instead of on Tuesday, so I could be there fore the meeting. When I got there I was given a name tag and asked to set up chairs and tables in the conference room. Then I wrote the schedule for the meeting on the board and set up all the posters and diagrams that would be used during the meeting. I also set up the Habitat documentary that would be shown during the meeting. When people finally arrived I helped seat them in the conference room and Hilary began the presentation. When she got to talking about office work she asked me to say a few words to the group about my experience with this. I talked to them about data entry and said it was very enjoyable and relaxing. Then I played the clip from the documentary. This featured interviews with some of the families the organization had built houses for in the past and they all expressed their gratitude for what Habitat had done for them. This made me realize what a serious issue their living conditions had been before Habitat helped them and it made me glad that I was helping such a wonderful organization. It seemed to me that bad living conditions must be an issue all over the world and I eager to help solve it at least in my own community. After the meeting was over I helped Hilary clean up and put the tables and chairs back. Hilary was pleased with how the presentation went and so was I.