More bags

The last day of working at the Tri City Volunteers was like any other time I have worked there. I again worked with the same people and same job. I helped bag more food and dry goods. It was only fun because there were people to talk to. I feel like I will not work there any longer because it is so slow-pace and not an active environment with constant stimulation to the brain.

Bagging food and making a new friend

On my third day of volunteering at the Tri city volunteers I worked again with Sierra Barrisonie and Karlie Cambel and a girl named Zena Abdallah who I did not know well, but she seemed petty cool and I think I made a new friend. This time we were assigned to pack canned food and dry goods in bag for the less fortunate. We were working with a group of people and me the genius I am thought of making some sort of assembly line so we could work allot faster and more efficient. We packed food for about two hours and it was a bit boring and tedious. It was not a job what feels like you are making a difference in the community.

Me Karlie and poo

On my second day of volunteering at the Tri city volunteers I worked with long time friend and constitutes Sierra Barrisonie and Karlie Cambel, we were assigned to clean the restrooms of the thrift store, right on the other side of the Food bank. Sierra was assigned to vacuum the whole store while I was assigned to clean the men’s restroom and Karle the female’s restroom. It was pretty easy to clean because I didn’t have to clean the stall, all I had to do was mop the floors and clean the sink and mirror. So later I helped Karlie with her restroom because it was so much dirtier. It was more fun working together, even though we were cleaning a place were people crap in. After we finished it was time to leave because they were closing up. Overall it was fun to work together but the experience was not a fulfilling because we did not feel we were helping the world becoming a better place, because all we did was clean the public restrooms.

SEED ART AND PAPER BOATS!

For my extra credit volunteer post, I decided to use the time I spent when I volunteered at the Eco-Fair. I spent most of my day with my buddies: Angela, Genesis, Janel, Laura, Leo, and Mindy. We had two booths at the Eco-Fair that taught students from Washington how to make seed art and paper boats. Our seed art booth had materials like glue, brown paper bags, and bird seeds. To make seed art, all you have to do is follow three simple steps. First, you take a brown paper bag and lay it on an aluminum tray. Second, you take glue and write whatever you want on the brown paper bag. Last but not least, you drop bird seeds on the brown paper bag and let it stay for about ten seconds, lift your paper bag then BAM! You just made a beautiful creation :) Throughout the whole day, I would ask students if they wanted to make seed art and some of them were nice to actually do it while others were rude and ignored me. The same thing occured when I asked students if they wanted to make paper boats and race them. Even though some students were rude, most of them were very nice and engaged in our booths. It felt great being able to teach students simple things like making seed art or paper boats. Also, you felt the excitement of the students who really got into what they were doing. It was a great day filled with great interactions made by great people. GO ECO-FAIR!

C-Dart? No Seed Art!

On Friday, May 27th, I along w/... yeah pretty much all my friends worked the Eco-Faire! We had thee coolest booths there, Seed Art and Paper Boat Racing w/ a pool and errthing. I worked the 4th, 5th and 6th period shifts with Casey Case and Leo. I showed up at 4th and was appointed lurer (as in I lure people I don't know if that's a word or not but if it isn't it is now my friend), trying to get people to come over and be Picassos with seeds. My cowbell and wonderful acting of "Whoa mind blooown, what is this? Seed art? Looks sick, join me stranger" worked and many people came over . There was a situation though where some freshmen were making a mess then refused to take their art with them. The little boy handed me his paper like "Here you go, its a present" and I was like "Nair my brethren, that's all yours you worked hard on it. How about you give it to your mom, she'd Totes McGotes enjoy it" then he got all offended "Okay I don't even have a mom so you just made me feel horrible thanks now you have to take it" but as I recall I had seen him with a woman who looked like a female 40 year old version of him a couple days ago in the parking lot afterschool so I was taken aback. I put my sassy nature aside and took his art so he'd go away and I could proceed to have a delightful afternoon. I occassionally supervised the paper boat racing but some people didn't know how to make boats... and I didn't either... so yeah they raced their attempts at boats and I gave a ticket to the winner. When things got slow, I walked over to mon petit chou Vivian's booth about oil spills and helped her demonstrate and urge people that the polymer was not candy! The wind was flowing and whatnot and I loved it until it started knocking over the tri-folds (and nearly our big tin of seeds!) I can't even say how much tape I used. Then there'd be lapses of uncomfortable warmth but tis all well because there were puhlenty of snow cones provided (can I get a woot woot). Leadership even passed out pizza to everyone working and that was much appreciated since I worked lunch. There were a lot of other good and creative booths that I enjoyed visiting also and overall I had a good time with good people, good food, and good music too showing people to reconsider just recycling their paper and to make art and boats instead! Don't judge me by my run on sentences of enthusiasm.

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.

Rain, Rain, Go Away Already!

Today was the first year of the ECT and IBEW safety fair in Dublin. I went along with some friends from water polo and we did a lot of community service. Overall, we did about 10 hours. It was raining all morning and the most dangerest part of the safety fair was getting there. I could barely see anything in front of me on the road because it was pouring so badly. When we got there we went inside a giant building and talked with the director of the fair. We then started to set up easy ups for all the booths that would be there. One the booths were set up it was cool looking at them. There was a CPR booth with the plastic dummies set up, then there was a policeman booth, and a fireman booth. For our service we handed out the food that the firemen were cooking. We had to serve hot links, hotdogs, hamburgers, and chicken dogs... which were really gross. It was about noon when people started swarming us for food, even thjough the food wasn't ready yet from the fire fighters. Once some food was finally done, the people waiting grabbed and took most of the food. Which meant that other people waiting had to wait even longer for food. Everyone was standing in the rain, but it didn't matter because they were all there to learn about safety and other stuff. Most of the people working there and others who were there were really nice. Doing the safety fair was the best community service I've ever done. It allowed for people to know about safety, but it was also a good way to get out of doing community service at the Tri City place. I am glad that I went out and did this because it was a good way of helping out the community.