Anyways, last Friday, Rachel Chacko and I were assigned again to several different tasks that we carried out in the volunteer office on the first floor. First, we had to type up several documents of instructions for San Jose Clinic to be put on the database. Mine were specifically about bleach baths, the application of retinol A, and how to care for skin after blistering agents are used. Since Rachel and I are both fast typers, this task was completed rather quickly.
Our next task took us on a journey back to our childhood as we had to prepare little coloring bags for kids for Easter at San Jose. We had to put three crayons in each of seventy bags, and we had to cut out paper butterflies and lady bugs for them to color in. A tongue depressor and either a butterfly or a lady bug were put into the bag, and the child would glue the bug on the end of the tongue depressor. As a child, I always preferred colored pencils. They were just neater and easier to color with. I had the technique down where you do the dark, bold outline and shade in the shape lightly. It worked wonders on my geography maps in high school.
The last random task made it feel like Christmas. We were given a box of children's books that were wrapped and donated to San Jose for Christmas, and our task was to unwrap them so that they could be wrapped again in different paper for Easter to be given to children. It was actually fun just opening the presents and see what book was inside because many of them took us back to our childhood. I was definitely a voracious reader as a child, always carrying a book everywhere I went. I read while I ate, rode in the car, went grocery shopping, ran on the elliptical machine, etc.
Definitely a day of reconnecting with our youth, it was another week of small tasks for San Jose. However, without volunteer help, I wonder how they could accomplish all that we contribute to along with all of their other more prominent work. Every little bit counts, and that's what matters.
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