Community Service Pt. 1

Last weekend on November 15th and 16th, my weekend consisted of community service. I love doing community service because giving back to the community makes me happy. Another reason is because I’m Buddhist and Buddhist people do things like give service or help out in general. Well, I’m not sure if that’s right, but I believe I’ve heard that from somewhere. I’m going to separate this into two parts because I have a lot to say about what happened during the weekend.

On November 15th from 8 A.M. to 2 P.M. , I volunteered with the CSF club to attend the Sharing and Caring Coat Drive at the Stockton Arena. I woke up around 6:30 A.M. to get ready and got picked up at 7:30 A.M. to head over there. When we first arrived, we had to hang all the donated coats onto hangers, put the blankets in an organized area, and organize the new socks in order by size. I took care of the coats with a certain amount of people and when we ran out of hangers, we stacked the coats by size on the table.  My group and I were in charged of the boys’ section for their coats.

There were many more coats than this.

This coat was really expensive and new!

Look at the price tag!

It made me really happy to see the little kids find what they wanted because they had genuine smiles and who doesn’t enjoy seeing the pure happiness coming from a little kid? Not many families can go out to afford new clothing for themselves or for their children and to know that we have organizations like this to help truly makes me happy. To know that I could help too makes me even happier.

Look at how adorable he is!

These kids are too precious!

There were many coats and I thought it would be enough for everybody, but I thought wrong. When people began to not find what they needed, I felt really bad because those who came early found what they needed and those who didn’t couldn’t get what they need.. Overall, we did a good job at doing the work that needed to be done.

Afterwards, they fed us with Whirlows food for lunch and I forgot to take a picture lol. It was a chicken sandwich with salad and a cookie. Then we began to pack everything left into bags and that was probably the end of everything.

This event was lots of fun and I’m so grateful to have been apart of it.

This week is going to be exciting!

I think that Chavez’s spirit is going pretty good this week considering how fun this spirit week is! I don’t understand people who say they don’t have anything to wear for this spirit week because I’m pretty sure you can go to the thrift store and find something. I love how the buildings are decorated, I’ll walk by A-Building and think about how amazing everything looks. I’m not so sure of what to wear for Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but I’m most likely going to dress up as Hillary considering that I can borrow stuff from my mom for that.

The building that the Juniors did was E-Building and I think it looks amazing! Especially the huge brick wall that has “Class of 2016” tagged on it. People are really trying to dress up this year even if it’s not that noticeable at least they’re still trying. Hearing the music from our spirit weeks is nice to hear as we walk by the buildings to our classes. I remember in my freshmen year, the homecoming theme was Disney and everyone was so cute that year! The Disney music was on point and seeing people dressed up made me happy. I wasn’t in student government that year, but man I wish I took advantage of all of the fun stuff that we did freshman year. Hopefully we do something Disney related again,

This is what I wore for Grease day and this is also the amazing brick wall that c/o 2016 did!

Anyways, I’m rambling a lot but I usually do this when I’m really happy.This week is a new week and I’m just trying to be a positive person when it comes to anything headed towards me. My weekend was pretty bad because of an incident that happened, but lets focus on the goods instead of the bads. On Saturday, I went to a leadership conference with my officers from Interact Club. We headed to Modesto to meet up with other Interact officers from different schools. We got a chance to meet new people and brain storm some community service ideas for our club. I had a lot of fun being there and hearing everyone’s ideas. On Sunday, I went to West Lane Bowl to spend time with my uncle and siblings. I use to think bowling was really hard, but I was better than I expected! LOL.

The banner we received from the leadership conference for our Interact Club.

I can’t wait for Friday. We have a Morning Madness Rally, throwdown, and the homecoming football game all in one day! I’m going to be extremely exhausted considering that I have to be at school by 5:30 AM and leave school at 11:00 PM. It’s going to be a long tiring, but fun day for me. I’m not really stressed anymore from planning out this rally. I’m basically done with everything now. I’m starting to learn how to manage time wisely. I got a lot on my plate and honestly, I have nothing to complain about because I’m enjoying everything in my life as of right now. I love blogging and how I get a grade for it. I’m going to miss doing this.

Don’t forget about the rally Friday! Here’s all the info for it (: