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| Where I spent some great afternoons |
I know that high school stresses volunteering like nobody's business. It's a good way to pad your resume and make you look like a better person to perspective colleges. If you're like me then your high school even made you log a certain amount of hours in order to graduate. It's funny how at the time, you volunteer because you essentially have to, but in college I found myself volunteering because I wanted to.
For those of you who don't know (which I don't know how many that can be, I constantly talk about the barn and my "kids") I volunteered for three years with CART, Charlottesville Area Riding Therapy. For about three hours a week I drove out into the country side to help teach horseback riding lessons to kids with physical and mental disabilities. It's cheesy, but volunteering for CART not only helped the kids I worked with, but it helped me as well (and not just as a resume booster).
Being able to leave grounds, if just for an afternoon, and get out into the country to work with horses (I'm obsessed with them if that wasn't apparent) was the perfect way to recharge. College life can be draining (sometimes I've even compared the social scene to a shark tank) but when I was volunteering I was more than just a college kid, I was a teacher and a helper. One of my students actually worked at the dining hall at UVa and sometimes I would see her and stop to talk horses for a bit (be nice to Uva employees!). I can't begin to describe how excited she would get, the girl was absolutely adorable, and it just made me feel good to know that I helped to fuel her excitement and riding confidence. In the end, CART was therapeutic for me as well. I think it helped to make me a better, more patient person (trust me, I needed lots of patience haha).
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| We even had mini ponies! |
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