Saturday, April 04, 2009
The Volunteers
In keeping with my recent tradition of depriving myself of sleep even on the rare days I don't have to work, I went to volunteer at a food pantry this morning. It was sort of awesome. First, there were free donuts, which is always a plus. But perhaps more importantly, my entire job was filling up shopping carts with people's food orders. It was like when I was in high school and had to occasionally run errands for my mom, but with pleasant feelings of social usefulness as opposed to bitter rage. And all the clients were so adorable! It's nice to provide frozen orange juice to people who really appreciate it, you know?
Anyway, with my Saturday school class ending in a month or so, I'm trying to think of some other new and amazing volunteer venture I might be able to try, preferably a little later in my Saturday calendar. I'd like it to be something incredibly fun (do they need any volunteer ice cream tasters?) but not at all demanding (if the people I'm helping could just swing by my house, that would be ideal). Something arts and crafty would be nice, as I am rather handy with a hot glue gun (do you think that the impoverished need handmade home decor?). Or perhaps something that involves forcing my own taste on other people (Faulkner for Fifth Graders, anyone?). In short, I am ready to save the world, so long as it can be done within some very narrow parameters of my own choosing.
In keeping with my recent tradition of depriving myself of sleep even on the rare days I don't have to work, I went to volunteer at a food pantry this morning. It was sort of awesome. First, there were free donuts, which is always a plus. But perhaps more importantly, my entire job was filling up shopping carts with people's food orders. It was like when I was in high school and had to occasionally run errands for my mom, but with pleasant feelings of social usefulness as opposed to bitter rage. And all the clients were so adorable! It's nice to provide frozen orange juice to people who really appreciate it, you know?
Anyway, with my Saturday school class ending in a month or so, I'm trying to think of some other new and amazing volunteer venture I might be able to try, preferably a little later in my Saturday calendar. I'd like it to be something incredibly fun (do they need any volunteer ice cream tasters?) but not at all demanding (if the people I'm helping could just swing by my house, that would be ideal). Something arts and crafty would be nice, as I am rather handy with a hot glue gun (do you think that the impoverished need handmade home decor?). Or perhaps something that involves forcing my own taste on other people (Faulkner for Fifth Graders, anyone?). In short, I am ready to save the world, so long as it can be done within some very narrow parameters of my own choosing.
