Learning to Serve

Serving the community has never been something high on my list of To-Do's; there's always just been one thing or another. Whether i was convinced I didn't have enough time for it or convinced that it wasn't important, I've always had an excuse. And to tell the truth, I'm still not sure if service learning is really for me. When I think service learning, I think overly nice people who are so caught up in the notion of putting themselves last that they seem weird and inhuman. Compared to that I'm despicable. The only services I've ever done are ones for ROTC, but even those were just small things like picking up trash or disassembling tents after festivals. This being said, I have little love for the idea of "volunteering" to help the international students on my free time. It seems selfish, but I'm willing to bet I'm not the only one with that thought floating in their stash of mental secrets. I do admit, however, that I'm a bit excited to be making a new friend (I'm positive we'll get along). Hopefully that will be enough to sway my opinions on this service assignment.