Service Project:
Pontiac Oakland Museum
mission statement: "Our mission is to preserve, exhibit, and maintain Pontiac and Oakland automobiles and related artifacts, to include preserving their heritage, influence, significance, and place in our society, culture and history."
The Pontiac Oakland museum is ran by a husband and a wife, Tim and Penny dye. Tim Dye is a car and artifact collector of just Pontiac's and Oakland automobiles. Tim and Penny lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma and decided they wanted to start a museum in a town that was along the Route 66 historical road. They did some research and found the city of Pontiac. Tim and Penny decided to move to Pontiac and the museum opened August 1st, 2010. The museum is one of the most popular stops along the journey of Route 66 and is continuing to grow.
I volunteered at the museum on Tuesday, May 5th from 10am-4pm.
The owners of the museum were there and also two other volunteers.
I had to great the visitors when they came in and also help them if they had any questions about the museum or anything else. One thing that was challenging was many visitors are from out of country and they did not speak fluent English so communicating with them was very difficult. I had to speak slow and use a lot of hand gestures to get them to understand.
I met a couple from Austria. Meeting them was my favorite part of the day. Learning someone else's culture and find differences was the most interesting. Communicating with them at first was hard but once I figured out how to communicate we talked for over an hour.
The most important lesson I learned from this experience is that every person is different in their own way. Every nationality is different and it just makes that person even more interesting and fun to meet.
