today's class

Hello Bloggers-Ok, so first off I need to follow the rest of you, I have not done so yet!Second I want to thank you all for your comments, I did not really want to have anything evaluated in class, but I usually jump at extra credit and it was worth it. I also want to say something about volunteering. So I am a little older than most of you ...I was the store manager of Goodwill for 10 years, and was a district manager for a resale store (of which almost all the employees are volunteers).I have had LOTS of expirence in volunteering. I was on the Brat days committee, and; a Jaycee for many years and held many different positions, was involved with Festive Fridays at the John Michael Kohler Arts center, I was an ambassedor for the chamber of commerce, sat on volunteer boards for RCS and Our Home, and in general was involved with community activities for lots of years.  I scaled down due to having children and now volunteer in the classroom, or at church. I have to tell you that my business (GW) was very successful partly because of my volunteering efforts.When I was there that store grew from a 300K year business to 1mil within 5 years.I had a great staff and lots of support, clean store, merchandised it well, but customers want to buy something from people they know. I had great donors and customers who enjoyed spending money because they knew about Goodwill through me and trusted me. The only reason I left was because they started promoting people (great) but you had to physically move ( not so great) and I had a family and could no longer move to another city. They transfered me to Fond du Lac, and the next step was Milwaukee.I needed to stay here. Anyway, while I aggree with volunteering and understand the importance of it, I personally ( due to family , work and school), can;t do more than what I am doing now, with my kids school and sunday school. The paper will be interesting to write and I will be reflecting on how I felt the first day I walked into a Jaycee meeting ( I did not know anyone...well one person kind of), and how it was terrifying, and yet made dear friends who stood up in my wedding and are dear friends to this day!! This ends my blog, gotta go and do homework!