Date: November 20th, 2014
Some areas around our school can get pretty dirty, such as the courtyard, outside of the media center and lunchroom, and in the hallways. To address this problem, our National Honor Society chapter stayed after school at two o'clock in the afternoon and didn't leave until around six o'clock in the evening just tidying up our school. We did this to help make our school a better, cleaner, and overall more beautiful place to be.
We all split up into three main groups: one being those picking up trash around the campus and disposing it into garbage bags, another being those with rags and a cleaning solution who wiped down the windows on campus and the walls in the hallways, and other groups were to decorate classrooms for the holidays and plant new, beautiful flowers around our newest addition on campus: the freshman building. We all rotated groups, but the one I was in the most was the group wiping down the walls and windows and decorating the teacher's classrooms for the holidays. My friends and I had so much fun! While still getting the job done, we played music and we were singing together as we tidied up.
What I took from this project is that our school population needs to have more trash cans placed around our campus so that we can reduce the amount of garbage and litter. If there is a trash can close by, students will be more likely to walk to the trash can and dispose it properly instead of throwing it on the ground. Sadly, there will still be a few students who fail to do the right thing by disposing it in the garbage, but we could at least try to prevent this from happening more. I also learned that doing a rigorous task -- or any task in general -- is funner when one has a friend working alongside of them. My friends and I had such a fun time talking, singing, and playing music while cleaning. In addition, I found a love for helping my school. It was so rewarding to stand back from our hard work and admire the good job that we did. I had a sense of gratification that we saved a lot of work for the custodians. We really helped them out because they usually have to stay very late cleaning up our messes. They were really appreciative towards us and we really put a smile on their face. Even from just working for a few hours, I realized how rigorous and hard their job can be because they clean the school school all day from seven o'clock in the morning and until the late hours of the evening.
I really enjoyed this project. It felt so wonderful to know that we really helped our school -- and our awesome, dedicated custodians.
Some areas around our school can get pretty dirty, such as the courtyard, outside of the media center and lunchroom, and in the hallways. To address this problem, our National Honor Society chapter stayed after school at two o'clock in the afternoon and didn't leave until around six o'clock in the evening just tidying up our school. We did this to help make our school a better, cleaner, and overall more beautiful place to be.
We all split up into three main groups: one being those picking up trash around the campus and disposing it into garbage bags, another being those with rags and a cleaning solution who wiped down the windows on campus and the walls in the hallways, and other groups were to decorate classrooms for the holidays and plant new, beautiful flowers around our newest addition on campus: the freshman building. We all rotated groups, but the one I was in the most was the group wiping down the walls and windows and decorating the teacher's classrooms for the holidays. My friends and I had so much fun! While still getting the job done, we played music and we were singing together as we tidied up.
What I took from this project is that our school population needs to have more trash cans placed around our campus so that we can reduce the amount of garbage and litter. If there is a trash can close by, students will be more likely to walk to the trash can and dispose it properly instead of throwing it on the ground. Sadly, there will still be a few students who fail to do the right thing by disposing it in the garbage, but we could at least try to prevent this from happening more. I also learned that doing a rigorous task -- or any task in general -- is funner when one has a friend working alongside of them. My friends and I had such a fun time talking, singing, and playing music while cleaning. In addition, I found a love for helping my school. It was so rewarding to stand back from our hard work and admire the good job that we did. I had a sense of gratification that we saved a lot of work for the custodians. We really helped them out because they usually have to stay very late cleaning up our messes. They were really appreciative towards us and we really put a smile on their face. Even from just working for a few hours, I realized how rigorous and hard their job can be because they clean the school school all day from seven o'clock in the morning and until the late hours of the evening.
I really enjoyed this project. It felt so wonderful to know that we really helped our school -- and our awesome, dedicated custodians.
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