Saturday, November 17, 2007

Midnight Run!

I think it was last week or the week before but I did the midnight run for campus ministry. I have my boyfriend to thank for this experience.
I found out about it through him and he did it last year, and kept telling me to do it with him so I finally gave in and said okay, and I'm honestly really glad that I did. I agreed to it but I really had no idea what we were doing or even where we were going, all I knew was that I was going to be home about 12:30.
We got to school and started making sandwhiches for the homeless, peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches to be exact! We made about 60 of those types of sandwhiches and 60 bologne sandwhiches I think. Well I was doing the jelly. It was kind of like a factory the way that we were working. We had one person doing peanut butter and the other ( me ) doing the jelly. Well let me tell you it got pretty sticky in the the cafeteria!
We eventually finished all of this and bagged everything and we still had about an hour before going into the city ( which I had just found out about ). So everybody just hung around the campus until it was time to leave.
There was quite a few of us and we all had to fit into one van. So we eventually left and started making our rounds. I was actually kind of scared because some homeless people aren't completely "there" or are sometimes dellusional and things like that but once we got to the first stop, I stopped worrying. There weren't many people since it was freezing out but the ones that were there were so nice and grateful!
It was like this at the other stops as well. You could really tell and see that they truly appreciated what you did for them and I was glad.
On the way back to campus we went around and said what we thought about the experience and everybody had something good and nice to say.
It was a really good experience and I'm so glad that I did it.

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