Now that our Service Learning Project has come to an end, I see many things that I have learned and the others that I have affected. When I first started this project, I thought it was going to be a complete waste of time. We put in our effort to work on the project and presented it like planned. While working and presenting the project I learned that it really is hard to get your message across to people when they at first don’t have any interest in what you are trying to teach. This project definitely made me realize what teachers have to go through every day.
Also while working on the project I learned more about the digestive system itself. My friend has stomach ulcers and working on this project helped me better understand what causes these ulcers, and how to help relieve them. My aunt in the past also had her gall bladder removed, and with the information on the gall bladder and the bile produced from the liver, it refreshed my memory of what had happened when she had her surgery and the process that she went through.
While working and presenting this project I got to experience the other side of what I am used to experiencing. Usually I am just like many of the people that we seen in the HEC, just walking by with other things to do. When you are sitting at your table ready to tell people about your project and no one is stopping by, you realize that you are that person too. I know someone who is always helping out various groups with their fundraisers and whatnot that happened to stop by to look at our project. She probably felt a sort of obligation from seeing all of the people walking past her presentations that she wasn’t going to do that to us and stopped by just to check it out for a few seconds. In the future I will be more aware of the various tables or booths that are presenting these things and I will stop by a few more of these.
Overall this service learning project was a beneficial experience for my college Biology 160 class. When I first seen it as a requirement on the syllabus I thought why am I stuck in this class, the only one that requires this? Now I realize that it was not that bad at all and in the future I will not be as hostile before I even know what it is about, toward a class with a service project like this one.
Finally, as this is the last post here is a last picture of someone who was interested in our project.
