I have been volunteering in various capacities throughout my life. Sporadically I volunteer at the shelter & cook for the people that come for supper. Sporadically I volunteer to clean up along the Riverbanks. Sporadically I volunteer to rock babies at the hospital. Well, recently, I decided to volunteer & help some of the refugees who have come to our country recently. Anyway, what I do is I help the refugees get acweather conditionsd to life in the United States. I have discovered through this volunteering occasion that I am a thoUnited Statesnd times more blessed than I ever even realized. For example, almost none of the refugees has any plan about Heating, Ventilation, & A/C. They do not come from a background where there is Heating & Cooling. In fact, many of them have never lived in anything other than a tent. I met a single couple who were in a refugee resettlement camp in another country as children, they grew up in the camp in tents, fell in love, & got married all in the refugee camp. They never had a water heater, so their bathing was always cold. They never had Heating & Cooling, so if it was freezing outside they built a fire oh, & if it was sizzling outside they tried their best to find shade & cool water, my entire life, I have always flipped the switch from heating to cooling or vice versa when the weather changed dramatically outside. I have never had to take a freezing shower because I have always had a water heater. In fact, once the water furnace was broken, & I left the beach house & went to stay at a hotel so I can have a water furnace & sizzling shower. This experience with the refugees has made myself and others quite grateful.