My Initial Impression of the Carnegie Center

     Though I have not yet visited the Carnegie Center, I can honestly say that I am excited to begin the process of service learning when I go for my orientation this Thursday. I think that this experience will be very worthwhile and help me learn in ways inaccessible through an ordinary classroom. Since I have not been able to visit yet, I have tried to familiarize myself with the organization by reading about it online. Using these means, I have discovered much about the Carnegie Center and this new information has made me very excited to volunteer there.

The Carnegie Center is an organization dedicated to helping people find new ways to express their true selves. I thought that I would be working in a library-like environment, but I was pleasantly surprised to learn that there is so much more to the Carnegie Center. The Carnegie Center will help you read and write better if that is all you desire. However, they are willing to help you in much more ways than that. Their true mission is to help you find the best way to express yourself, so they offer myriad opportunities to discover how best to express yourself. These opportunities include learning to be a better playwright, learning other languages and so much more (a more detailed list of opportunities can be seen here: http://carnegiecenterlex.org/workshops/special-interests/). Essentially, the Carnegie Center aims to help people learn more about themselves through the literary arts. This is a mission that I would love to assist. 

Book club meetings are just one of the many ways through which the Carnegie Center helps people connect and learn.

I am very excited to begin this service learning experience and try to relate my experiences there to the lessons I learn in the classroom. I also hope to be able to take lessons away from this experience and use those lessons on a day-to-day basis in my life as a whole and not simply leave those experiences in the classroom. To get a more in-depth look at the Carnegie Center and a better understanding of why I am so excited to volunteer there, you can access the organization's website or Twitter. I am looking forward to starting this Thursday.