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.

To Early For Me

On the morning of May 28^th 2011 I had to wake up early in the morning to go to church and help make food for homeless people. I woke up at four in the morning, took a shower, and woke up my younger brother Giovanni (he is ten years old), and finally headed to Our Lady Of Guadalupe church on Fremont Blvd. and Blacow. When I got there I had to sign in put on gloves and helped with the foil, for wrapping the burritos at the end, once done with that I was assigned to help make coffee. Of course my brother was helping me do the things I was put to do. After helping make a big pot of coffee outside me, and my brother went inside. And inside was a guy that needed help with some boxes and bread, once again me and Giovanni came to the rescue. There were about four to five boxes that needed to be filled with fifty different kinds of Mexican bread. When we were done filling up the boxes they told us to stop doing what we were doing because the holiest was going to come in and bless the food. Since it was my first time I didn’t know what to do or who they were even talking about, everyone around me got on their knees while I and another person were just standing. After that happened everyone soon got back to what they were doing, and now I was assign a new task, I had to count each burrito that was made and in each box their needed to be 200 burritos. When done with that around seven we got into groups of ten people. Each group had to take a box of bread, chips, burrito, water, and had to take coffee. Each group was either assigned to go to Oakland, San Jose, Frisco, etc. My group took two cars to San Francisco; we took two boxes of each thing. When we got there we went under bridges and just gave out food to the people that we saw that needed nutrition. After going under one bridge and another we were going around parks and other places. It was a fun experience. People were really thankful, and appreciated for what we were doing. Finally we got back to Fremont around twelve (I think, I don’t quite remember). On the way back I ate a burrito, and it was good. They do this about every two months and I think I’m going to do it again. Even my brother liked it. It’s a nice feeling, non-profit, and it’s from a catholic church.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gbdcjA2mAQ

Seed Art at the Eco-Faire!

So for my last blog post (and for the first time) it's not about the Tri-City Volunteer center, but it's about the eco-faire! On Friday, May 27th, we held an eco-faire at Washington High School on the front lawn of our school. So on Wednesday, Janel, Angela, Leo, Patricia, and I all met up at Angela's house to make the poster for our booth, which turned out quite well although it was last minute! We had two booths set up at the eco-faire. One was seed art, which is the booth I worked at for the majority of the time and the other one was boat making and racing. I was pretty much working there for half of first, then fourth, lunchtime, fifth, and sixth period. In the morning, I arrived at school at about seven o'clock in the morning. We set up our tri-folds and got everything ready. During fourth period, Laura and I had to make a store run to get some more glue for the seed art because we ran out. Working at the booth was really fun. I loved helping people make their own seed art, giving them instructions on what to do. During fifth period, however, there were these two freshman boys (I knew they were freshman because I asked them, I was not assuming!) were throwing the seeds everywhere! They were acting like such jerks and I got frustrated with them. They were so rude wasting our seeds. At first, I asked them not to do that nicely because I had to clean it all up and we needed to save the seeds for other people. They didn't care. After they finished making theirs, they gave it to Genesis and wanted a ticket from me. When they found out that they don't get a ticket for making seed art they got even more angry but eventually got tired of arguing and just left. I forgot to take a picture, but I don't think it matters much because I saw Mr. Speckles pretty much every period and I saw Mr. Shawn too. Overall, working at the eco-faire was fun. There were a lot of cool booths around and it was nice seeing what everyone made at our booth.

OHS Part 4

the snake from a while ago that crawled through the fence.

    The last time I went to OHS was really fun. I was in charge of more than before. I saw how big and different the animals get. Tessa and Ally, that was the girls name i kept forgetting, came in after me. When I signed in, Angela told me to take care of the house finch from last time. It was in a bigger cage this time, and another house finch from last time joined it. I found out later the new bird wasn't new, it was the one inside the warm machine. The warm machine thing is where they put baby and sick animals and it's like temperatured. It took a while for me to feed them, the small one wouldn't open it's mouth and the bigger one wouldn't stop. It was the same thing with the crows from last time.
     Speaking of the crows from last time, i heard the smaller one didn't make it, I got sad after I heard that. Tessa and I went to the fly cages were the bigger crow was moved to. When Tessa was trying to feed the bird, she had to use a ladder that was already there to get up to where the crow was. I tried to feed it some little pieces of whatever was in the bowl, but it was having a hard time swallowing them. We thought it was to big for the crow so we just stuck with feeding it meal worms.
     Speaking of meal worms, Tessa fed it the last worm in the bowl, and asked me to get some more. Great, huh? So i went, and used the big spoon looking thing they use to take out the sand from the smaller meal worms, but it doesn't work for the bigger worms because they are in oatmeal. So i had to find another way to get them out. Ally told me to use tweezers and im like "ay". So i did, and filled the bowl with about ten or something and headed back to the crows cage. After giving Tessa the worms, I headed back to where the birds were because it was their time to eat again. Another 10-15 minutes trying to feed them, then i checked off their sheet marking that they have been feed. I also was told to clean their cage. And maaann, the poop alot, it's small poop, but it's a loottt. I picked the birds out of their cage and put them in a little basket that closed. I changed the news paper, and refilled their water. I put the grapes on a stick back where it was and replaced the birds.
     After that, Tessa asked me and Ally to help make the opposums food. We read the sheet and had some trouble figuring out what some of the stuff were. Angela helped us out. We got canned dog food, some fruit, this type of fish, and a mouse. The mouse was still frozen so Angela said to put it in later. We put the food and water in their cage and put on some gloves so we could put the opposums in  it too. They were really small, and kinda cute.. but not their tales, those looked kinda ...ok. My dad walked in to pick me up, and told him to wait a second. We each put in one opposum in the cage by their tail. It wasn't that hard, but they would let go of the towel, so one help the opposum while someone else tried to pull the towel away. I think the day went well.  I said bye, signed out and left.