February Volunteer Venture

This month's volunteer venture earned me a free ticket to Disneyland! I read Tightwad Tod to a group of second-graders at an elementary school close to work. I signed up via "Give a day. Get a Disney Day." I expected the experience to be similar to my experience with the little girls at Camp Diva, but the interaction was brief since I was only there to read the book to them.

After I finished reading, I asked the kids what they thought Tod was going to do now and some of them said, "spend all his money!" Though being a tightwad isn't necessarily fun, I felt the need to remind them that you don't have to spend money to have fun. I asked them what fun things they could do without spending any money. One little girl said, "You can play at the park and that doesn't cost a penny." It was cute. Definitely my take home point of the day. I'm going to the park tomorrow!

January Volunteer Venture

I signed up to sort books through onebrick. It took place at a warehouse not too far from my house. Since it was in a warehouse, it was quite chilly. Brrr... I got to sort children's books and reminisce about all the books that I read as a kid. Sadly, I had to toss some because they were "outdated" or in poor condition. It took some self-restraint to not salvage some of those books, but I did end up taking Millions of Cats and Stone Soup home with me.

After three hours of sorting books, I went to lunch with five other people from the group. It was a nice experience, chatting with some new people. I learned about some cool volunteer opportunities for when the weather gets warmer. There was one guy there that was kind of socially awkward and creepy. Not sure what his deal was. Unfortunately, I didn't get to debrief this guy with any of the other volunteers. Oh well, talking about the creepy guy purpose of my volunteer venture.