Jeffrey Langston

This event took place in Dyess, Arkansas. It was probably one of the most unique volunteer opportunities I've done. It was all about relaying storm damage to the red cross, we got briefed in the morning then went around in the afternoon assessing the damages. Most of the flooding was gone by the 12th, but we looked for major structure damage, or water lines on homes. It was pretty awesome, and makes me interested to do volunteer workout outside of education when I'm an adult.

This was my second night out at the Lights of the Delta. This night I worked in the concessions stand and helped manage things there. I was filling orders, and restocking things throughout the night. A lot less cold than the first night, but definitely busy!

It was a great experience. This was the first of two nights I volunteered out at the Lights of the Delta. This night I worked at the front gate, despite it being extremely cold I worked well with the other people there. It was a lot of greeting people and counting money!

This was a volunteer event that was extremely enlightening for me. I often do manual labor, or some kind of simple task for a volunteer organization. Not to say that doesn’t have merit, but this was so different! I was doing my part in the community, helping hold our public officials accountable. I got to see and contribute to the inter-workings of the justice system in Memphis and some of it’s deficiencies. Being able to observe a court and rate a judge on their fairness, professionalism and effectiveness was great. It’s an underrated service to the community, it’s important to do this, and it will hopefully make our justice system more fair.

Also Lilly, an intern who showed me the ropes was extremely professional and helpful.

I spent another lovely morning at the BAFB Exhibition. I did more work on the side of scanning historical documents, and reviewing some potential additions to the growing collection. It’s a challenge to review historical artifacts, they’re sensitive, but can also not always fit the museum's primary function. The curator and I did that the vast majority of the time. It’s grunt work, but work that has to be done if the project will ever grow into the fully fledged museum they’re hoping for! For me, it’s a doubly useful activity. I get to contribute to the exhibition and gain insight into what a career in museum curation might be like. As a history major, that’s an important thing to experience! It gives me a wider idea of the types of career opportunities out there.

I spent the morning and early afternoon volunteering at the BAFB exhibition, which is a new museum located in my hometown at an abandon Air Force Base. I spent the day scanning delicate historical documents, and working up front at the register if needed. I also spent the day helping with odd jobs that required someone strong to do. I've learned over the course of this, that someone who can pick up a washing machine can be very helpful, and that's my specialty. I spent my time moving heavy objects and scanning documents. I worked alongside the regular museum workers, and helped them achieve some goals they've been pushing for. They were very clear with what they needed help working on, even if I did an assortment of jobs, I know it benefited them greatly. I will continue to volunteer with this organization, I get to spend my time around amazing historical artifacts and help bring them to the public's attention.

I worked at the lights of the delta helping with admissions, and being a "catch-all" aid to the people around me. The Lights of the Delta is a local holiday lights display in my hometown of Blytheville Arkansas. For my town it's a culturally important place as a massive lights display that's community funded by different groups and organizations. My service contributed to the overall maintenance and wellbeing of the place just by helping where I was needed. Personally the impact was very illuminating for me, I've always gone to the lights as a patron, but volunteering for it allowed me to see the innerworkings of everything. I would gladly volunteer out there again, as it was an enjoyable experience, and I know it's helping the people of my community.

The event was a 5k, and I helped gather the drinks, ice and all of the equipment needed to administer the event. I also got to pet a couple adorable puppies at one point.

We went to the beginning of a Showboats football game to help pull one of those really big American flags that span across the entire field.

Woke up early, picked up some fellow ROTC cadets and headed to the Drill Meet in Millington. I helped calculate scores, move things around and just helped wherever I was needed in the organization of the event.