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December Blog / Dec 17, 03:07 PM
December blog
Well it looks as if I am just blogging about once a month. It is hard to find the time to blog sorry guys :). So a lot has happened this last month. For Thanksgiving my team went to our church to cook and feed people all day. It was pretty cool to hang out with some of our church people.
Buy Nothing Day:
Buy Nothing Day was the day after thanksgiving. Buy Nothing Day is a day where you promote buying nothing. It is against consumerism and there were a lot of other people doing it, like The Simple Way and others. You can check up more about it at http://adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/ A lot of us got together and some of us wore costumes. I didn’t wear one though, did you think I would, lol. Seth from the Philly team was coat man and wore like 7 coats and was planning on giving them away during the day and he gave away all 7!!! Some other costumes were a blood drop and the guy promoted giving blood. We also had sister winter, a Christmas tree, a newspaper pirate, yellow pages princes and a high five ninja, lol, krazy kids, good times good times.
The Wrong Bus
So one day I was having a crappy day and kinda didn’t feel like working at the after school program. So me and a team mate get a bus to go to the after school program. Turns out it was the wrong one and we went the wrong way. So we got to go on a fun bus ride and it was a nice little break. It took us like 3 and a half hours to get to the after school program and we arrived just in time for ending program. I enjoyed my nice little break though it was just what I needed that day. God works in mysterious ways. :)
Pancakes and Canadian Bacon
So a few of us decided to make breakfast and take it to the homeless guys we hung out with on Urban Solitude. So we make pancakes, Canadian bacon and coffee, well Emily and Matt made everything I was just there So we get there and one of them is already gone, but its okay there are three new people. We give them the pancakes and they finish eating and then we are just sitting there talking with them when a couple of cops show up. Now if you didn’t know these were the three guys who were staying beside the abandoned AAA building and I have visited them a couple of times since the time I stayed on the streets with them. The week before this I visited them and one of them mentioned that someone had finally bought the building. So now a week later a couple of cops showed up. I was like oh no. The cops just told them they had to leave because they were trespassing on private property. They had been living there for about 4 months. They started gathering there things and I was just overwhelmed with a feeling of sadness and powerlessness. I felt like just breaking down and crying right there on the spot, but I didn’t because I don’t like letting people see me cry. So when I got back home I was telling my family that I live with in Camden about it and just started crying for like 5 minutes. I just felt paralyzed and kinda felt that way through out the day. Just pray for me and those guys
Other things
I am still working at Hopeworks and Urban Promise and couldn’t be any happier with my service sites. I love the kids I work with and my bosses too. The people you work with really make the experience.
Merry Christmas and a have a Happy New Year. :)
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I am with ya on the story about the homeless guys getting the boot. I cried that day as well.
By Matt Roark / Dec 18, 08:28 AM / #