How much you think all that food weighs? If you guessed about 1293 pounds of food your a pretty good guesser. Guess who got to help move it from the Telefund basement in Harrison hall, to a van, to Stewart Center, and then into a truck parked outside Stewart center? Thats right! Me! The Telefund has been participating in the food drive for last couple weeks and that corner of our basement office has been getting more and more crammed with food. Few days back my boss asked me to box up allot of the random goods. And then we got more. Today was time to deliver it. What helped with this amazing accomplishment was that the callers were offered a paid minute of work for each individual item they brought in. This included Ramen packets and Koolaid packets. Callers have 4 hour shifts. You bring in 240 items, you get a free shift. With koolade and ramen, this is actually price efficient. (Specially if you are buying from Aldi's or non brandname) (Yes there is generic brand ramen. I was amazed) This was allot of fun taking it to the truck, where they told my boss and I that it was the most they had recieved thus far.
Apparently my good citizen level is through the roof. Getting food out to hungry? Check. Yesterday, donating blood? Check. I highly encourage everyone to donate if you can. IT SAVES LIVES! It's always allot of fun for me. Go, get stuck, lay in relaxing chair for a bit, bop my knee to the music they playing, get unstuck, bandaged and free food and drink. I got a nice tshirt too! My favorite predonating question is when they ask to see both your arms up to your elbows. I swear I'm not a heroin addict, see! No needle marks! Yay for me! Well.. Now I have one needle mark. But that's from donating blood. The American Red Cross was here exactly 2 months ago to the day and when I gave asked if I would give again in two months. I said sure. Well man did they ever mean it. Three phone calls later thanking me for my donation and reminding me of when they would be here again, I was sure not to forget the date. No side effects or weakness. In the past I've felt maybe a lil tired or (drained... haha!) but it seems like I am giving so regularly now that my body is getting used to it.
So main points of today's post, donate to hungry if you can, donate blood to people bleeding if you can, and my good citizen level is currently through the roof. Now if I could just save some poor puppies or something.
3 comments:
Wow! Good job!
I've never seen so much ramen in one spot in all my 28 years. Not even in the store. It is a college town, though and college towns are known for their never ending supply of ramen noodles. Hey, but I bet all that ramen equaled some pretty light lifting!
Very good works Dave! It's nice to see you bloggin'!
Thank you! Yeah the ramen was easy. The boxes of canned goods was the exercise. Luckily this wasn't the same day I gave blood. My arm would have been hurting if that had been the case.
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