July 21, 2012
Yesterday Grace and I worked at the
Back To School Clothing Drive from 7:30-1:30. It was an amazing, fun, and exhausting experience. The organziation provides school clothes (including socks, undies & a belt), books, a pair of shoes, and a back pack stuffed with school supplies to literally thousands of low-income students. Grace and I worked as personal shoppers. We were paired up with one or more students and we walked them through the shopping "departments." I shopped with 6 and Grace shopped with 12!! Siblings were grouped together, so some times we had more than 1 student. This all took place in the arena of a local private college. It was a crazy how much stuff they had.
Grace wanted to shop all day long, but I was wiped out by 1:30.
An interesting note: all the schools from my elementary school district were there...including my alma mater, Cordova. Afterwards, Grace & took a little drive by my former school and house. Yikes! sums up my reaction pretty well. What a difference 30 years makes.
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| Those seats in the arena are COVERED in backpacks. About 9,000, all full of school supplies. |
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| Here is a view of the departments on the floor of the arena. |
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| Grace with one of her little student shoppers. |
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| Grace with her family of four students. |
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| Another view of the departments. |
