<p>Has anyone ever volunteered as a pollworker?</p>
<p>I'm excited to do it because I'm getting roughly 14 hours of Community Service for it, and because it just seems like a fun thing to do.</p>
<p>How was your experience, if you did it? What did they have you do? </p>
<p>I have training a week from Tuesday. I'm working with another girl from my school, but I've only met her once or twice. Any advice?</p>
<p>Nope, how many community sevice hours do you have left? I know you been accepted already to a college.</p>
<p>My school district requires 40 for graudation...I've had those done since my sophomore year.</p>
<p>However, my Small Learning Community requires 115. I have 93, plus about 15 more that I haven't turned in yet. So I only need 7 more.</p>
<p>Sounds interesting. I don't really have any advice, but um i guess be friendly.</p>
<p>Haha, I'm gonna be one - we get to miss Tuesday from school :)
Our school doesn't have any community service requirements or anything, so the mere fact that we get to miss school is reward enough (and the $105 doesn't hurt at all)!</p>
<p>I think it'll be fun - I'm looking forward to it. My training is on Thursday - but those idiots spelled my name wrong in the official appointment sheet thingy - I have to call them tomorrow =/</p>
<p>Doesn't being paid kind of miss the point of community service?</p>
<p>I'm going to work the polls (haha. ;)) on Super Tuesday in LA, CA. I'm a bit nervous because I'm in AP Spanish, so I put multilingual, but I'm afraid I won't understand anyone. Time to brush up on my govt vocab.</p>
<p>How can you get community service hours for a job? CS = volunteer work = no pay.</p>
<p>Optimization, being in AP Spanish doesn't mean you're fluent in the language :P</p>
<p>That's what I thought Northstarmom.</p>
<p>^ That's how it is here too. Pay= NOT volunteer.</p>
<p>Um, some people get paid for being a poll worker and some people are poll workers as volunteers.</p>
<p>If you get paid, you aren't a volunteer. That's the bottom line. It's community service if you don't get paid.</p>
<p>I'm not doing it for community service. People from my econ class just signed up.</p>
<p>Cono, good point. My teacher says that we know enough to be considered fluent - I took three real practice AP tests and I got a 4, 4, 5 on them, but I don't know. We'll see.</p>
<p>You aren't fluent even if you get a 4/5... trust me lol. You just need more exposure to the language and study to be fluent.</p>
<p>Well, you may be fluent, but people will be scared by your stiff formality.</p>
<p>I've never worked as a poll worker, but I have worked for a political party. That was pretty fun.</p>
<p>That is true. My speech is a lot more formal than native speaking friends' speeches...Darn. Oh well. I'm a native speaker in Farsi, Pashto, and Arabic, so hopefully those will come in handy.</p>
<p>There was an opportunity here for interested students to get paid for working as poll workers, though I think you can volunteer too. They even came to my school and did the training, even though there were only about 20 students. I believe they are going to be making close to $200 a day, but you would have had to be 17 and a registered voter back in November when they did training :/</p>
<p>You don't need to be fluent to be a poll worker, they just need to have an inkling of what you're saying.</p>
<p>If you can speak and understand Spanish as well as you can Farsi (since it's a native language of yours), I'd consider you fluent. Being able to hold a stiff, awkward conversation with a little trouble is more of a basic conversational fluency. </p>
<p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=zsrGwitnHs8%5B/url%5D">http://youtube.com/watch?v=zsrGwitnHs8</a></p>
<p>It's a pretty random example, but this is some of the clearest Spanish you will hear, and they are speaking a bit slowly. Kudos to you if you already know who the person being interviewed is.</p>
<p>I'm going to be a pollworker. I'm not doing it for community service. I haven't done it before, though, so I have no advice.</p>