As a 4th year student at Pax Catholic Academy, we are required to have our immersion or what we commonly call “community service”. We had three immersions already and unfortunately I only attended the third immersion but luckily, it was our Christmas party together with the parents and children of our adopted area.
When we arrived at the area, children and parents gathered at the chapel to start the program. They are so excited as well as us. We started the program with a prayer followed by the opening remarks. Emman and Gle gave a dance number to entertain all of us and Kate gave a song number after them. Everyone gave them a big applause. We conduct games for the children and we can really tell that they enjoyed it. After all the activities and games we had a small “merienda” for the people. We also brought with us small gifts for each of the families and gave it to them before we say our “Merry Christmas” and goodbyes to them.
Having this immersion experience develops our compassion to the less fortunate and realization of our present world. It trains us to be aware of our unequal economic status and how a youth can help like us to solve this arising problem. This experience will always be in our hearts and minds. We will always be glad and thankful that even in our small ways we helped and shared God’s loving presence with others especially to those people who really need it. We are hoping to learn more from this community service and experience.
