Lights of Christmas

 

Dear bees,

This time I will talk about my experience volunteering during the winter brake. What is actually Lights of Christmas? It's a spectacle with more than 1 million Christmas lights displayed, a spectacle spread over 15 acres at Warm Beach Camp in Stanwood, Washington, during 18 days in December. The Lights of Christmas offers live music, theater, crafts, pony rides, a petting farm, and Polar Express Train rides. Visitors can shop for Christmas gifts, listen to carolers, attend a dinner theater and visit with Santa Claus or Bruce the Spruce, the talking Christmas tree.

 

 

Every year more than 500 people volunteer at this wonderful place. This year, I had a great opportunity to be one of them. I was working with two of my good friends at the ornament decorating stand. We helped the kids by giving them few ideas and just talking to them. There is also a chance for volunteering to spend a night at one of the cabins for free! The cabins are nice decorated and warm. We really enjoyed our time ! I would definitely recommend everyone to come and have fun.

 



 

 

Amazing journey called volunteering

Source: Thank you speech for all volunteers NVW 2013

Dear bees,

Welcome to the second post on this blog. This time I will share with you a post written by Wendy Moore. I really enjoyed reading it and I am sure you will too. It talks about importance of volunteering work and gives you an opportunity to hear other people experiences. I am hoping that it will inspire you to get more involved in your community. Feel free to share it with your friends too!

Until next time, work good and work hard.

Introduction, first post yay!

Dear bees,

Welcome to the place where you will be able to share your ideas, get information about volunteering opportunities and help us to improve our community.
My name is Lamija Jamak and I am an exchange student from Bosnia and Herzegovina. I am spending this year in the state of Washington in a small city called Marysville. I decided to leave my country and family and go into unknown, guided by will for improving myself as a person and meeting new culture. What really fascinated me is how Americans value volunteering work. Aware of the fact that volunteering work is not very common in Bosnia I decided to use opportunity that GNML is providing and make a blog where everyone willing to volunteer will get information where to go and what to do.
In this introduction post I wanted to share my volunteering experience. First time I've volunteered is at the Marysville food bank, place where I met a lot of very kind people of all ages who sacrifice their free time and spend it to help provide nutrition food to people in need without question or judgment.

Marysville Getchell Campus, my current high school, values leadership and volunteering work. It's involved in many activities in which students are able to participate and give back to their community.One of the opportunities that I was given is volunteering at school organized food drive. Group of students spent their afternoon in front of the big stores, passing flyers, collecting food items and donating it to the Food bank.

 

 

One of the interesting opportunities to volunteer

On 10/29 one of the schools in Marysville Getchell Campus organized "haunted house", since the Halloween is coming closer. They have given chance to all students interested to dress up as zombie, doll or clown and be a part of this very fun and creative event.

 

 

 

That would be all for the first post! It is a short one, but no worries there are many more posts to come! Look forward to that :)

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