Josh 2/24/10 LES Girls Club 2

Today we went to the Lower East Side Girls club for the second time and this time we were actually put to work.  Last time we met everybody and started to understand what their organization was about, but now we were officially starting.  We got there at three thirty right after school and Jenny (the head of the organization) wasn’t there yet but one of the adult workers Luna was.  Luna was working on wrapping chocolate bars, another way they receive money for their non-profit organization.  There were two kinds of chocolate, bitter sweet and milk chocolate.  What they do is like what Carin does, but Carin makes the chocolate while the Lower East Side Girls Club just buys fare trade chocolate.  My first job was to take the wrapping paper and fold it so that the chocolate could slip into it.  After i folded all of the paper i started to glue (to pre-wraped in tinfoil) chocolate in to the wrapping with Harry and Noel.  While i was doing that Jenny arrived and started to speak to us about helping with the second annual Lower East Side Girls Club Walkathon.  She talked to us about recruiting people from our school to walk with them or sponsor people from our school including me in the five kilometer walk.  After we spoke about that Jenny left us alone for a little bit with two other workers from the girls club to work on the chocolate

We talked to them about how the got involved with the Girls Club and how long they have worked there.  For them it started out as community service but turned into an internship and eventually for both full-time jobs.  When all of the chocolate was wrapped we marked the chocolate bars bitter sweet or milk chocolate with the two girls.  Finally we finished our job and Jenny let us go but she told us to go back to our school and start arranging a group for the walkathon, which we plan on doing as soon as possible.