Saturday, June 4, 2011

One persons old books, is Josh and Genesis' Labor

For the extra credit post Genesis and I went to our favorite community service place ever! We went to the Tri City Valley community service place. But instead of just going immediately to the food pantry, we went to the thrift store. Both Genesis and I were tired of working in the food pantry, packing potatoes, and sweeping the huge floor. So we just thought it would be a good idea to check out the thrift store to see if there was anything we could do. The lady who was running it was really nice, so she let us organize the blankets, books, and shoes. Genesis and I started folding blankets, then we went to the books. There had to be at least 300 books that needed to be organized on the shelfs. So we started to get to work. The books took forever, but once we were done we felt good that we helped out. It was a very different experience from the food pantry. It was a good change from doing the same thing, and it got us to feel like we were helping poorer people. They had couches in the thrift store that were only 35 dollars and they were actually pretty good looking couches. After we were done we went into the food pantry to see Patricia... but we couldn't find her. So we went to the front and there she was washing windows. So at that point Genesis and I knew we had made the right choice by going to the thrift store right away indtead of the food pantry.

1 comment:

Brooke E. said...

I definitely agree, packing potatoes was a drag. But someone has to do it. If not the court men, then the nice friendly volunteers: us. I am so happy you guys got out of that silly place!