June 20, 2016
City Impact
Noah Blakely
PACT Trip #3
Since I had previously done work at City Impact, I had a basic idea of what I was going to do coming in. I knew that I was going to have to communicate with a lot of homeless people and a lot of people whose minds are not in the right place. Each time I go, I am nervous and scared of what is going to happen. However, while I was serving, I was able to put these preconceptions behind me and I tried my best to do my job without worrying. I discovered a lot about myself while working. I learned that I can't have preconceived mindsets because to my surprise, so many of these homeless people were kind and willing to talk to me. It was my own self that got in the way. I had a lot of different emotional reactions. The thing that hit my emotions the hardest were some of the stories that people told me and what they had been through. I did not think that my work had a big impact on the problem, but I am helping solve a problem that is much bigger than me and there is so much work that needs to be done that one person cannot do that much. However, everything I did had an impact no matter how small and a lot of the time I was making someone's day or helping out someone in need even though I did not solve their issues.
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