As an international student, I didn’t know much about volunteering before I came to Canada. Employers kept turning me down due to lack of experience when I first started looking for co-op positions. Then I joined Cloudlife Daily - it's a media-based club where I can practice what I've learned in class and even learn things the hard way. For example, one time a team member had to call me in the middle of the night after I completely forget to update some information for an event we were putting on the next day!
I felt terrible about it at the time but at the end of it, I walked away with a good understanding of how to work with other people and prepare well in advance for the events that Cloudlife Daily hosts.