Community Service Paperwork: Fill & Download for Free

You can; if you find a nonprofit to support with coding projects, they’ll have paperwork they can fill out to provide you with community service hours depending on the requirements of the entity you need the hours for. Nonprofits commonly have paperwork on hand for student community service hours.

Spanish: 1 out of 8 Chileans speak EnglishCompare the cost of living between your home and Santiago herePlan your trips through the city here (Spanish)August is mid winter. Not all Chilean buildings have A/C or central heating. If you are coming from a tropical or Northern country used to central heating, get ready to buy thick clothes and a gas heater.You’d wish to contact your country’s expat communities for advice on best places to rent, culture tips, etc.Locals tend to stand closer when talking. One forearm is normal (may change after COVID) and doesn’t mean harassment or lack of respect. Women may greet people with one cheek kiss and/or handshake, though this is totally optional and you are free to just say hi and offer a hand.Chileans will stare at foreigners, perhaps on par with Germans, Indians or Chinese. The less educated or exposed to other cultures, the more the staring. Any physical trait other than Latino or Mediterranean European will stand out on the street. This does not mean judging appearance or behavior, just interest in foreign looks or accent.Expect some “reminders” of a country with one foot still in the Developing World: slower services (paperwork), poverty, pickpockets, stray dogs, garbage on streets, subtle sexism, some racism/classism, pollution, etc.Get ready to go out a lot: Chileans like to party hard till late or even early morning, it’s also a kind of social ice breaker to make friends. Also get ready to go outdoors a lot because there’s plenty of places to do trekking, beaches, mountain, lakes, forests and desert, etc.Chileans are the Latin version of Nordic people: polite and reserved at first, friendly once you get in their circle.People speak fast and broken Spanish. The street slang and accent are considered ‘funny’ in the Spanish-speaking world. Feel free to ask to repeat or talk slower.

In the US, the weirdest reason for an arrest has to be failure to pay a minor traffic ticket.We don’t really mean to send people to jail for going five miles over the speed limit, do we? Jail is meant to be the threat we hang over their head to get them to pay up, but what about those who genuinely cannot afford it? Should they really sit in jail (and incur additional expenses) for something that 99 percent of drivers do on a fairly regular basis?I had to go to traffic court recently because State Farm had accidentally cancelled the insurance on the wrong vehicle (to be fair, we did have three Expeditions, so I can see how it went wrong), so I’d gotten a ticket when someone backed into me in a parking lot. That was just an incredibly depressing way to spend an afternoon. I also couldn’t help but notice that I was one of three white people in a crowd of fifty-something people, but I’ll let you draw your own conclusions about that.Having a last name that starts with a P and an R, I was one of the last people called so I got to watch the whole show. Nearly half of everyone there had already been to court on their ticket, but they’d been unable to pay and given extensions or community service. Three quarters of those got another extension without question, two got one with doctor’s notes, some showed that they’d successfully paid what they owed, and three were sentenced to five days in jail.One didn’t really offer any excuse or explanation, and quietly sat down by the deputy. One had paperwork from the hospital that the judge didn’t accept as a valid excuse, and a young woman tearfully explained that she had no vehicle and no way to get to whatever place she had been told to report to for community service. She begged the judge to call the place and confirm that she’d called them every day to ask if they could suggest a way for her to get there, but he quite reasonably didn’t have time for that.I don’t think that it had truly dawned on her that she might not be going home that day, and she continued to cry desperately, asking the deputy to call her mom. The crime that sent her to jail for five days? Failing to come to a full stop. Why is it that the same infraction would cost me a swipe of a plastic card, but her five days of freedom? It’s just absurd. I didn’t want the ticket on my record so I had brought a lawyer and paperwork from State Farm, along with proof of insurance for the right car, but the prosecutor decided to drop the charge as soon as I moved towards him. What a strange lottery! I was so happy that I discreetly asked if I could pay that woman’s fine, but the judge said it was too late.Could it be that the mere sight of a lawyer standing next to me made the prosecutor drop the charge? Was it my ability to pay someone to help me get out of a situation that I shouldn’t even have found myself in that worked to my advantage? As sad as that sounds, it’s actually the best case scenario. There were several others who had a first-time appearance for the same infraction, but only mine was dismissed. If it wasn’t my money that got me off, could it have been my skin?