For the first volunteering post, I volunteered with Josh Christy at Tri-City Volunteers and we decided to go to the same place the second time around. We showed up a little before three and told the man in charge we've been there before so he just told us to go straight to the warehouse. This time there was more people volunteering with us but none of them went to our school so we just kept to ourselves because we were getting looks. We started by bagging onions and filled up two whole bins by ourselves. Last time, we bagged potatoes and had Norma, Casey, and Brooke there for an assembly line but this time around it was just us doing it on our own. After we were done, we helped out another girl who was bagging bread. We just put three or more types of bread in a bag and put them in a huge bin for a while. Josh really loved ripping up the bread for some strange reason. After we finished bagging all the bread, we looked around and realized everything had pretty much been done. The other people there were really just sitting around talking to each other so Josh and I were just standing around waiting for the man in charge to come back in the warehouse. The man came back and he put everybody to sweeping. Josh thought he was Sir Sweeps-A-Lot or something with his enormous broom but I was the only one really sweeping accurately. We were dancing around while sweeping and again the looks. People were ogling like we had a third eye but we got the place clean so... After everyone got tired of sweeping, they went back to lounging. I took this as the perfect opportunity to showcase my stepping skills but one of the guys in charge took this the wrong way. He said since we're the only energetic ones, he'd put us to bagging cans and desserts. Soon, everyone was helping us and we filled a lot of paper bags with cans of stuff like corn, sauces, and soups. I got asparagus juice all over me but it went okay. Pretty soon it was time to go and Josh got upset because he wanted to bag some more bread. I was like really Josh, relax. We were glad we got to do different things than last time because we were worried it'd be the same thing for another two hours. Even though Josh and I were like loners, we had a good time and got a lot of things done. We plan on going back for the third time later this week and trust we'll still be the energetic ones there.
Driving there like pros: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR-d7gFkBwg
Sweeping like pros: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejDlkl6lMCk&feature=related
Bagging like pros: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtUQJiJxxLY&NR=1
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