Service 9/30/2020 (Learning Outcome 2)

As a co president of our schools Student Ambassadors, I wanted to do something really special to make all of the ambassadors feel special. So with the help of my co president we came up with the idea of delivering cookies to all of the ambassadors. This would be a way that they could feel both welcomed, but also get a tasty treat. The first thing I had to do was figure out what kind of cookies to make. Since I am a somewhat indecisive person, this took a while, but after settling on a sugar cookie and a maple cookies (to go along with fall) I got to work baking them. The everything was going very smoothly and by the end of the day it was time to start delivering the cookies. This was the most difficult part because it took plotting out everyones addresses and finding the most effective work. I used to help of my co president and another ambassador to be in charge of delivering some of the cookies, so it was not all the job of one person. This proved to be very effective because we could do it by area and make it a much more efficent way to deliver them. 

This would be a part of learning outcome 2. In order to deliver these to all the ambassadors I had to first make the cookies, set time out of my day to make sure I could still make it to all my classes and get all the decoration done. Then I had to spend even more time delivering which took a lot of time and planning. Although overall it was a fun experience and I was happy to do something nice for my fellow student ambassadors, I learned that it is very important to plan ahead of time so you are not stressed in the moment and I also learned to designate jobs to different people to make things more efficient. 

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