This past Saturday I participated in the Into the Streets Event and helped racking and clearing the yards for the Greater Ithaca Activities Center. My biggest motivation for this event was to have the time to do service in the community for Ithaca. In high school and even in my club GlobeMed at Cornell, community service was emphasized as a way to understand the community better which surprisingly being a student in the town, I do not know much about it.

The nice thing that the GRFs did were that they asked the secretary at the Center to explain what the center did. It was very touching to see the programs that were created to establish a stable source of knowledge and help for the youths that really need help in Ithaca. It is nice to think that our work of cleaning yards would be going to having kids coming in the next week and seeing a better kept facility outside. Even though it was hard labor, it was worth doing it for the kids at the youth programs.

Also, I enjoyed my time in the service activity making some new friends and learning more about people living at Rose this year and for next year!