For my summer of service this year I am staying in DeLand and working on a few things for Bonner. I just completed the planning of the First Year Trip which I have to say I am a little jealous of how cool their trip is going to be :) For next year the students are going to be going to the Florida Everglades for Fall Break and working in wildlife conservation, green sustainablity, reclycing, and fun! During my time working at the CSL to enhance our Bonner program as well as to strenth the connection with our community partners, I have really found my "sweet spot". I love planning and I love the administrative side to service. Sometimes I miss doing direct service because working behind the scense does not give you the connection you get when working to servce and help people face to face. But I am begining to see that my talents and strenghts are best utilized by putting the pieces in place for other students to go out and do that direct service. I never realized how much planning and organizing it takes to keep up with communication with everyone and find new ways and oppourtnities for students to serve.
My next project is Bonner101 Training for our community partners. We are going to be focusing on what bonner is, how bonner students can help communitity partners, what bonner webbers are and how to navagate the site, as well as helping the community partners see were they could use bonner students in there orgainzations. Along with this I am also going to be talking with them about this next year's Freshman Exploration Program ;)
I am really excited to get going and will check back in after the workshops :)
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