This semester I volunteered three different times. The first was at the annual Dunn Dash Triathlon. At this event, I worked for 4 hours while cheering on the participants that were riding a stationary bike. I would get them water, write how far they got on the bike, and clean the bike off after they were done. The second volunteering was in the Chicago area while on spring break visiting a roommate. At  Feed My Staving Children, I volunteered for an hour and a half packaging food for people who can not afford a meal for themselves or their families. The third volunteering was at the Ohio State day of service that was ran by the alumni association. At this event, I worked for 5 hours. For the first few I made sandwiches that were sent to a homeless shelter in the area. For the other hours I made tie blankets for the people at the Wexner hospital. I have learned from all the volunteering that I enjoy helping people out. I have learned that I am not as shy as I think because for all of the activities I had to talk to a lot of random people. Because of service learning I am more engaged in my community of Ohio State.

After completing the True Colors personality tests which focuses on the education and having fun side of ones self. There are so called four different categories or colors that one can be ranked into. The orange being adventurous and active, the blue being empathetic and authentic, the gold being orderly and conservative, and the green being knowledgeable and rational. I personally fell into the orange color, but this does not mean I am only “orange” . This means I am mostly orange but most likely have certain other qualities from other colors. This which makes us all unique because the whole population can not be grouped into four categories.  Some examples of when I would show my orange color in a group setting like Dunn Sport or just on a team would be: being the first to jump into doing something without thinking of the risks (this might not be such a good thing), being open to all ideas, thinking about how to get up and do something rather than sitting around, and being competive in everything.

Definition- Stepping up to solve a common problem, but this does not mean doing all the work or being the “boss”. A leader should know when to follow or when to lead depending on the skill set of the problem.

Example- At halftime in a soccer game my team was down, I was a senior captain in charge of the defense. I had to step up and yell or politely tell the other defenders what they were doing wrong and how to fix it in order to win the game. This is leadership because I was good at defense and regonized what was going wrong. I was also older, so the younger players automatically looked up to me.

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