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For Urban Action Day, I learned a lot about other ways people lived. My class and I rode a bus to St.Vincent De Paul for service. When we got there, we split into groups to go to different service sites. My group went to a shelter for homeless men. When I got there, the men started looking at us weird and wondering why we were there. The lady who runs the shelter took us around and gave us our job.

Our job was to clean the majority of the windows. I was wondering why were weren’t interacting with the men and talking to them about their stories. While cleaning windows around the building, some men would say hello and smile at us. Some men would also walk up to us and say thank you for the work we were doing.

When we left, I was processing my experience. Gracie Combs, a girl in my group, had some thoughts about Urban Action.

”It was fun and a great way to get into service,” Combs said.

I also learned a lot during Urban Action Day. For example, we never think about how homeless people live or what they are feeling. Just cleaning the windows gave them a smile on their faces. We judge people for being homeless or people on the street when we don’t know their stories. We don’t know what they’ve been through in their lives and how they became homeless. Be kind to everyone you meet, because you never know what they could be going through. Urban Action Day is a day you need to reflect on yourself and what your doing to help others. It’s a day to find out what your job is and how you can help the people around you and even the world.