<p>Where? How often?</p>
<p>Um. I'm not sure of the exact total, but I have got a few from my yearly help at the Salvation Army round Christmas. I've also got quite a lot assisting at library sales in my area, which I used to do about an hour per month for the last two years. These days I get in about eight hours a week--three tutoring another student in my high school in math, and five working at a local hippotherapy stable on Saturdays. I'm planning to see if I can't work at the stable more often this summer, mostly because I love the work I do there and I love the therapists. :) Besides, it's a great work-out--I normally do almost all the barn-work when I'm there, and I'm usually on my feet and moving for the entire day.</p>
<p>hmmm I'd say...120? I have 25 from freshman year, then I did like 75 at my local Sunrise (4 hours a week...urgh!) and I review books for my library (have done so for 2 years), so it can be whatever time I want</p>
<p>613 -- our numbers are kept track of by the school and reported on our transcripts.</p>
<p>If volunteering at a hospital counts, I've done around 1300 hrs.</p>
<p>Approximately 15 minutes, plus or minus 15 minutes.</p>
<p>around 20,000 hours (I'm not joking)</p>
<p>I'm just wondering- do you have to have an authority figure sign a note or something confirming you've done all these hours in order to put it on your resume? Or can you just keep track by yourself?</p>
<p>at my school, you document each individual activity yourself, then a teacher signs off on it (s/he calls the phone number you list as the coordinator of the activity if s/he is suspicious) and it gets put into your community service file. i think it differs from school to school though.</p>
<p>paul, how did you do that? how many hours/week do you volunteer?</p>
<p>Paul volunteered day and night, continuously, for 27 months. :)</p>
<p>about 350 + id say</p>
<p>um...we don't record it officially. I was supposed to but forget and just never felt like it. This summer I calculated though so around 1300 give or take a few hours.</p>
<p>About 1,400. I don't keep track.</p>
<p>Um about 20--only need 60 to graduate.
Is that weird?</p>
<p>Nah. We only need 20 to graduate and that's because you have to take a class where you need 20 hours. If you do 100 hours though it counts as a .5 high school credit.</p>
<p>I feel as though I'm being left behind in this race of volunteering---but I'm a strict believer in doing what you like and not worrying about what colleges want you to do so I'm just going to live my life and if I find a cause that talks to me personally, I'll spend as much time as possible working for it. Am I just apathetic because it seems like there are so many causes yet I am not particularly taken w/ any of them? Today we learned about Sophie Scholl, the German student who risked her life for something she really believed in (i.e. that Hitler must be stopped). But I guess that was different because she was actually living during that time and it affected her personally. Maybe the problem is that I'm too sheltered.
Volunteering for school itself goes against my don't-do-it-for-college stance but w/e, I want to graduate, please and thank you.</p>
<p>I did about 120 hours. My high school requires each student to do at least 100 hours of community service to graduate.</p>
<p>I did about 250 hours, my high school doesn't require community service hours though..</p>
<p>the guy who said he did 20,000 hours, why bother lying like that?</p>
<p>that would be:</p>
<p>6 1/2 years at 8 hours a day</p>
<p>2.2 years at 24 hours a day</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>10 year at 5 hours a day</p>
<p>why bother making stuff up?</p>