decide for me: which volunteering?

[shehak20000]

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Hi everyone!

So I'm having a really hard time deciding which volunteer opportunity to take because they both interest me and both have the same time commitment. So i was hoping you guys could give me your input on what I should do:

Option A: Putting on puppet shows for local elementary schools. The puppet shows are disability awareness puppet shows....like we pretend that the puppets themselves have a disability and we go through a skit with them to "lessen the fear of the unknown" for little kids about people with disabilities.

Option B: Volunteering at a call center crisis line. It is a 24 hour crisis call center, where people call in regarding issues like loniliness, suicide/depression, sexual assault, substance abuse, etc.

Please keep in mind that I have done a lot of work with people with disabilities already...I worked at a long-term facility over the summer and will continue to go there every summer(group home type of setting, but it wasn't residential), and am currently volunteering as a caregiver for adults with developmental disabilities. For this reason, I feel like Option A would sort of "go with the flow" of everything else that I've done, and would probably be more fun for me because I love kids. At the same time, I feel like Option B would help me develop my skills more because it would help in reacting well to stress and would give me a wider range of experiences.

So what do you guys think?

 

[shehak20000]

bump please!

 

[babaghannough]

i'd say option a. it gives you more to talk about during interviews and might catch the adcom's attention (hopefully in a good way).

 

[Dr.Acula]

IMHO, option B sounds like it would be a great choice.

 

[Inessa]

option A sounds like more fun as long as you'd have opportunity to gain additional experiences, addn'l learning opportunities to what has been done in the summer, but either one really.
Go with the gut feeling.

IMHO, option B sounds like it would be a great choice.

 

[BellyDancingDoc]

Option A.

Since neither of these can count as "clinical experience," I would go with the one that a) sounds like the most fun and b) is the most unique. Option A wins on both counts.

Just make sure you get some clinical time in somewhere, too!
{EDIT: Ah, I see that you're volunteering with the developmentally disabled. If this is in a clinical setting, you're golden}

Frogs

 

[el.harpo]

if you want to work with kids when you grow up then definitely go with option A, otherwise it's a tough choice