Throughout this semester, I experienced a lot of trouble in organizing events and jobs among the group but through organizing fund-raisers and acknowledging ourselves of the intention of our community group.

-What did you learn about the community and about yourselves?

I learned to be organized and how to evenly split jobs among groups, and the art of collaboration. I particularly enjoyed laying out and discussing the mission of the group; building houses for the homeless. I learned myself that i should be thanked to have a roof over head.

-What changes will you make because of what you learned and experienced?

I will raise more awareness of the mission of our community group.

I will raise more awareness and be cautious about our environment and surroundings.

- What have you experienced?

The experiences I have gained throughout a semester worth CAS activity is definitely very valuable ones. I have gained knowledge about the people with no homes or any appropriate shelter and also discussed with others about the reasons leading up to this problem of not having a shelter to stay.

- What did you learn about the community and about yourself?

I learnt that there are a lot of things that are being a problem in the community and I found out that there are surprisingly quite a lot of things I could do in order to help solve this problem.

- What Changes will you make because of what you learned and experienced?

I will try my best to engage as much as possible with all the activities going on in the CAS, and will contribute as much as possible to the activities we do to earn donations in order to build happy and warm homes, which is definitely what everyone deserves.

In the first semester in Habitat for Humanity, I've experienced a lot with learning about different ways of helping people without homes and why they don't have homes. There are a lot of possibilities and combined the reasons together and we ended up with one reason.

I learned that there are many possibilities to why people don't have homes and the different ways on how we can help them. I also learned that there's so many ways of helping people even if it's in a small way. I also learned that i am capable of coming up with different ideas to help and join the cause. I also learned that there's a lot of responsibilities on how we keep money and use it wisely.

I think that i would raise more awareness about this topic and see if i can do more to help not only build a home but to also help with supplies needed in the house.

I experienced many people all eager to work together towards a common goal, trying to make Vietnam a better place by giving  a proper home to the people without one.

What did you learn about the community and about yourselves ?

I have learned how to work better in a group and how to work together to make something happen, like bake sales. I have also learned how to manage many things at once and how to be flexible.

What changes will you make because of what you learned and experienced?

I have learned how to manage bake sales and  I have experienced working together to achieve a goal as well. I will try harder to make people see that there is a problem out there about decent housing. 

What did you experience?

This year I experienced a lot of things, but most of the things were already experienced in the past in terms of sales and etc… I’ve already experienced selling things from my middle school CAS, so transitioning to this cas was not hard at all. What I did experience was more bonding between the members of our group, seeing that we meet every Thursday, and almost always starting with opening circle.

What did you learn about the community and about yourselves?

I learnt about how HFH actually contributed towards the Service Learning, and the opening circle questions actually made me think more of some of my likes and dislikes. I also learnt things about others that I had not known before.

What changes will you make because of what you learned and experienced?

Marketing products are indeed hard, but through this expreince, I will be able to market better, and work collaboratively as a group better.

What did you exeperience?

I experienced and learn how a lot of populations in Vietnam are homeless, how little things like bake sale can help in a big way.

What did you learn about the community and about yourselves?

I learned how to be orgainised and how to split up jobs.

WHat changes will you make because of waht you learned and experienced?

I will change how I procrastinate everything and I will get more organised.

Something that did not go well was the aesthetics of the booth. We did not have many posters or banners. I saw many other booths that had nice decorations and they attracted more customers just by the booth's appeal. 

Next time, we could play the music louder because that attracts the audience. We also should decorate our booth more and display the game more so more people can see it. We could also hang up posters to promote HFH and tell people to come to our booth.

Something that didn't go so well and something that we could have done better was making the game a bit more obvious and making the booth a bit more appealing to other people. Also having a variety of other things could have been better and having two games running would have been nice. Also if the game was a bit more creative, people would have liked it more.

We were lacking in preparation because most of people were not on time.

We should be more responsible in organizing

Something that we could have improved on was having people turn up in time. In the beginning we opened late and missed some opportunity's to make money. Also we decided that the cans were too light so we filled them with sand which didn't work out so well so we had to empty them out. Other than that I think that it went really well.

However, we could have prepared it better with more equipment, such as napkins and plates. It was hard to serve goods like cake and brownies without having these basic things like forks and plates. The customers looked sort of disappointed at it as it was very hard to eat. Next time, we should plan the equipments needed more carefully, not only the types of things to sell.