Community Service Series - Pre-Service, Steemfest and Sh*t I learned

Today is the first day of my pre-community service. As a background, this community service is a compulsory class in my university. It is a class which the students are expected to live in with a family located in remote villages or island. The aim of the activity are to spread knowledge and giving back to the community while teaching students how to be in touch with people. It is assumed that we (me and other students) don't know how to mingle with people. Since we're " expected", " hoped", " wished" to be leader of the country, law makers, innovators, thinkers, this was seen as a necessity.

The span of service is about 7 weeks and the location will be some in remote village or island. For me, I am going to be deployed 30 km from where I currently live. The choosing of location was based on student's interest. I specifically do not pick any remote island as I was considering of the expenses and my current health. Not to mention, even before steemfest 4 location was announced, I already had a plan to attend it. However with community service going on it seems to be slightly a road block. But I am sure, I'll get there, to steemfest 4.

When the location was announced, I was ecstatic. It was nearby and the expenses estimation would only be less than 200$/7 weeks, I hope. However, I am not feeling really good about it since I could use the money for a better activity to do, like steemfest! But again, if I don't do this community service, then I wouldn't graduate.

Anyway, I also think that this community service is no different than my previous live in experiences. However, since I was expected to work, I feel slightly burdened. I will be dealing with many people; strangers I've not known earlier and it's a challenge. Even though I am generally a pleasant individual, I have quirks that might not be tolerable. I am pretty sure we all do but I am just going to watch out my prescriptions very carefully. Otherwise, I will be a mistuning synthesizer. Anyhow, I won't go far explaining on that today. Let's save that for later, shall we?

_{Me trying to clean up brown dead leaves and attempting to look aesthetic.}

So today as mentioned, the activity was doing a university clean up. Students coming from different majors were cleaning up the university area based on their assigned block. For me, I was given a task to clean just in front of my own faculty. My faculty is very clean so there wasn't much to sweep and to clean. On a positive note, the activity was also a good exercise.

For a reason, that kind of activity reminded me that if I want to be successful, I gotta be willing to put on the "dirty" work. The simple thing like following orders, mundane basic activities even spending a certain amount of time to perform a task; these things might be helping me in my desperate attempt of getting a job. I was never into being a corporate cog, working 9-5 religiously but it seems to be the foreseeable event. That's all for this first post on community service series.

I am more than happy to share my community service updates and activities. So, follow me in this 7 weeks journey of it and my roadtosteemfest.

[macchiata].