Building Bridges

As many of you know I volunteer as much as I can in the states. Luckily, I had the opportunity to build bridges here in Ireland as well.  I think it is very important to volunteer and to build bridges in not only your own community but others as well especially if you live in another country for three months.

  Two of my friends and myself thought that helping cute little children would be perfect for us.  And it was.  There is a day care right along the street about a fifteen minute walk from Park Lodge.  It was weird actually, because all of us just walked into the building without anyone stopping us.  Let’s be real, if we were to do this in America the workers would have a hay day of some strangers just walking into the building.  It was just weird.  Anyways, we walked into the day care and we find the office of important people we need to talk too.  The lady was very nice, her name was Ashley.  She was interested in knowing why we were there.  Although, she wasn’t quite the lady in charge.  We waited about 10 minutes for the boss and her name in Jane Marie. 

It went well.  She gave us dates of when we could help out with the kiddos.  We decided to help out on March 28^th and March 29^th because they were having camps on these days.  It was perfect. The children were five years of age to ten years of age.  During the camp we did some pretty cool crafts with them.  They were about Easter and St. Patrick’s Day.  The kiddos absolutely loved it.  Although, the older kids were not too thrilled because they thought it was kind of boring.  All in all, it was good craic and we connected well with the staff and children.  They are all super nice people.