{"id":36747,"date":"2018-11-26T16:28:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T21:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=36747"},"modified":"2018-11-26T16:28:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T21:28:45","slug":"start-thinking-about-arw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2018\/11\/26\/start-thinking-about-arw\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Thinking About ARW!"},"content":{"rendered":"So what is ARW? <\/span>\r\n\r\nARW stands for Alternative Reading Week and it is an program offered by the Center for Community Partnerships, which allows UofT students to immerse themselves in different community projects in the city for three days during the Winter reading week. Registration is now open (here is the link: <\/span>https:\/\/studentlife.utoronto.ca\/ccp\/alternative-readiing-week-phase-1-form<\/span><\/a>). For this reason, I thought that now would be a good time to get the word out to everyone. After all, the second reading week of the school year will come by quicker than you think and registering right now means that you'll be first in line to choose your own project when the time comes next semester!\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nI sat down to speak with a few people from the Centre for Community Partnerships, who have been involved with Alternative Reading Week in recent years, so that they can tell me about their experiences.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIris Deng: \u00a0Communications and Promotions Assistant (also a third year UofT student!)<\/b>\r\n\r\nHow did you get involved with ARW?<\/span><\/i>\r\n\r\nBelieve it or not, it was actually the posters that got my attention! I saw them around my residence in first year and I was intrigued. <\/span>\r\n\r\nWhat was the work you did at ARW?<\/i>\r\n\r\nIn my first year, I worked with the Innovation Hub group and I learned a lot about UofT that way. In my second year, I helped to make a mural for Art Heart, which is a community art space in Toronto. My experiences at ARW have been really fun. I\u2019ve never really had a volunteer experience that I felt so supported in. I felt like my time and effort was appreciated.\r\n\r\nWhat did you ultimately get out of this opportunity?<\/span><\/i>\r\n\r\nSo ARW is actually the reason why I got involved at the CCP! Which is why I tell people that you never know what you\u2019ll get out of volunteer experiences. It\u2019s not just 3 days, it can be something that can hugely impact your university experience. I got this work-study position because of it!<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAmina Farah: Coordinator, Co-Curricular Learning<\/b>\r\n\r\nWhat have you personally gotten out of this experience?<\/span><\/i>\r\n\r\nI\u2019ve connected with so many people! It\u2019s just been so cool to see students come back and say what a good experience it was for them at ARW. Community work takes a long time and sometimes you don\u2019t get to see the growth. With this program, the time is condensed to 3 days so you can see people develop through this experience.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWhy should students be involved?<\/span><\/i>\r\n\r\nYou can connect to organizations that do work in something that you\u2019re interested in and promote causes that you care about. You\u2019ll also end up meeting so many interesting people and it can lead to opportunities that you never knew about before.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n
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One of the ARW project teams in action last year!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nOn a personal note, I have signed up for ARW and I am definitely looking forward to it. So, what are you waiting for? Go register now!\u00a0 If you're curious about it, here is more information about the program:\u00a0https:\/\/www.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/ccp\/stu-alt-week","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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