2. I began my year with several team building
games, papers to sign and boxes to move.
Then came the first day of roughly 335 days of
service at Community Television of Knoxville;
where I edited several hours worth of video,
recorded another several hours worth of
footage, and met many fascinating people.
Those roughly 335 days of service also include
my time volunteering through the ever-
helpful volunteerknoxville.org website with
Keep Knoxville Beautiful, the Knoxville Film
Festival – where I served various, deliciously
flavored moonshine and conversed with many
wonderful people from within and without the
US – the Farmer’s Market at Market Square,
the Children’s Festival of Reading – where I
was the lovely assistant to UT chemist, Dr. Al
Hazari – and the Restoration House of East
Tennessee.
3. Above all, what impacted me the most, were the
hours I spent volunteering at sites I found through
the volunteerknoxville.org website and with the
Second Harvest Food Bank. The website was such a
great resource for great opportunities like
landscaping and helping build a new playground at
the Restoration House, bartending at the Knoxville
Film Festival and assisting Dr. Hazari at the
Children’s Festival of Reading; I will definitely be
taking my new-found passion for volunteering with
me wherever I go, and will encourage others to do
the same.
