<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[/url]”>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>