Community Service Experience At La Bienvenida

During the 2016 fall semester, I completed my community service hours working in two different cultural and educational events. The annual events of La Feria de Educación and La Bienvenida helped me complete most of the hours I was assigned. The services I performed during those events were beneficial to me in several ways due to many reasons. The events of La Bienvenida and La Fiera de Educacion not only contributed some form of work experience, it potentially helped me network and gain community service experience.

La Bienvenida has very specific goals, which are to welcome the new students to Fresno State, introduce them to the many programs offered by the campus, and to celebrate Mexican Independence day and Hispanic Heritage Month.

Both, the student and parent, became familiar with college resources and learned many new ideas due to this educational fair. At La Feria de Educacion I was required to volunteer and participate in the workshops. Even though my assigned job didn’t start until 1 p.m, I had to arrive at 7: 30 in the morning to help set up the fair. I also had to set up some of the signs where our workshops were going to take place in the designated rooms. The job I was randomly assigned was to help out the instructor and to direct the students or parents to their workshops. I chose to held direct the parents and to assist an all spanish workshop because many of the parents that attended the festival didn’t speak English. Even though I am undeclared, I have always thought pursuing a career in education. Like the event of La Bienvenida, I hope my duties at this event will help my future major or career. I would recommend this event to other students at all grades, not just college. If they’re in college, I would recommend them to volunteer because it is very fun and it is a good community service experience. If they are in high school I would heavily recommend them to attend because it could help them learn very important things about college that many people don’t know. Unlike the other cultural event I volunteered at, La Bienvenida, this could potentially help me create networks with people that can be beneficial in the future. I met many people that helped organize the event or were there participating and getting to know them could help me