<------- is volunteering for a month (Jan '07) doing environmental conservation/ restoration work in New Zealand. Not exactly the kind of volunteering you're talking about, but I just wanted to go to New Zealand and do something a little different.

no bragging allowed.

I "volunteered" to be an assistant coach on a baseball team for special needs kids. The quotes are necessary because it's my son's team and I was asked to do it, so it really wasn't volunteering at all. But it's a good cause.