296-word version:
As an eager beaver volunteer and an amateur civil servant, I helped construct houses for the impoverished in Sri Lanka and Thailand....

338-word version:
Since my sophomore year, I have been engaged in many overseas community services. As an eager volunteer and an amateur civil servant, I helped construct houses for the impoverished in Sri Lanka and Thailand...

356-word version:
Since sophomore year, I have been engaged in many overseas community services. As an eager beaver volunteer and an amateur civil servant, I helped construct houses for the impoverished in Sri Lanka and Thailand. Last summer, I traveled to Mongolia on a church mission trip as an assistant to the medical care detail...