Today I woke up feeling the past 6 days weighing down on me. I was tired. As we rode to the food bank I tried to be joyful about what I was doing. But I had a rough time getting through the morning. We were mostly working behind the scenes at the Free store once again…making personal hygiene bags, stocking a huge amount of Ice Cream Sunday flavored PopTarts and Hot Dill Pickle Potato Chips. (yum…?) In the afternoon a few of us rotated checking people in and out. If you read Alisa’s earlier post, you know that this basically means weighing their food and making sure they don’t have too much of any particular coveted items (ie: Pop Tarts…).
When I was working the check out, I noticed that a lot of people kept leaving with much less food than they could have had. I kept thinking, “Just take more food! You haven’t met your 75 or 50 pounds. You get it free, how can you not take it!?!” The most common reason was “I have to walk home and I can’t carry that much.” Looking at their weary faces and hearing their situations tore my heart. I began feel guilty for my earlier attitude. It made me realize how blessed I am. I’ve never had to wonder if I’m going to be able to eat or wash my hair when I woke up. Such simple daily tasks…I take a lot for granted.
We left the FreeStore and still had some time before we were going to meet our host families for dinner at Dewey’s Pizza. So…we went shopping. :)
At 5 we met for pizza. Very very good. Possibly the tastiest pizza I’ve ever had. By 6, we were headed back to the church for our final night with the Youth Group.
Game Plan:
7:00 – Hangout…play random card games etc., eat snacks (mainly Swedish Fish. yuuummm)
7:30 – Begin with our first game: The Stick-Disney-character-names-on-everyone’s-back-and-make-them-ask-yes-or-no-questions-to-figure-out-what-they-are-game! It probably has a name…I don’t know what it is.
Whenever that game ends – Begin Target Trappers! Which was pretty much a glorified version of Capture the Flag and Hide and Go Seek…combined. It was a lot of fun. We hid several different objects around the entire church. Each object had an assigned point value. The group was split into two different teams. They had to find objects and bring them back without getting caught by one of us. If we tagged them then we could make them give us an object or do something ridiculous. One of the middle schoolers had to do the army crawl down a very long hallway, a couple of boys learned how to play Patty Cake, and we heard the premiere of a rap about sunflowers. We played two rounds of that and then everyone cooled down by playing board games or watching a movie.
It was a very full but very good day. I learned that I have a lot to be thankful for. And some middle schoolers can run extremely fast.
I can't believe the week is over already! But I am looking foward to being home again soon.
Thanks for reading :)
Monica
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