Hi everyone,
I was advised to engage in volunteering, as an attempt to overcome my shyness. I attended to a few lessons along with other 20 people, which I did not know before, and passed an exam which allowed us to become active members of an health association.
Although advanced courses will come later, we were provided with our uniforms for service activities which consists in a long sleeves cotton polo shirt, a sweater, a water-resistant and thermal insulated outerjacket with a hidden hood and a personalised velcro name-plate, trousers and safety footwear ankle boots.

I wore it for the first time yesterday, after passing the exam, and everything was fine. I felt comfortable because my uniform is cozy and covers my body and my dull skin. We were requested to take part to our first service activity at a street stand, where our task was to educate people about correct lifestyles, helping measuring blood pressure, distributing flyers and entertaining children by allowing them to draw and paint our arms with watercolors.

I refused to take part to the activities yesterday because I was to shy and prefered to see what I would have to do these days. Then I looked at some pictures over their blog which documented this activity. It seems to be nice, however I noticed that many volunteers had taken off some parts of their uniform. I phoned to some colleagues and they said that many of them took the upper parts of the uniform off because they needed to let people learn how to measure blood pressure on their arms and entartaining activities with children required the arms to be uncovered as well.

They advised me to leave my outerjacket and my sweater in my locker when I go to these activities in public. Also they told me that one of them insisted on staying all zipped up in her full uniform until it was time to play with kids and a few little girls were expecting to use watercolors to draw her arms. She was still packed up in her uniform which however could not resist against those kids. The little girls blamed they could not draw and started unbottoning her outerjacket which in a few moments had its fastening completely opened with its buttons and zipper being wide open. Then they pulled a sleeve out of her arm and she had to take her sweater off and roll her polo shirt's sleeves to allow them to make their drawings.
She was given a post-it note with her name written to stick on her polo shirt to replace the official plate which was gone along with her outerjacket. It was not as readable as that but it was better than nothing, she said.
Now I fear to go to these activities because I really fear to show my arms and take off my nice uniform. What would you do?