rubyg-2/6/10-Village Temple-2nd.visit

Today Taliana and I arrived at the Village Temple around 9:15 and met Will and Max there.

We basically did the same thing as last time, but instead of making tuna sandwiches, we made ham and baloney sandwiches. It started off exactly the same: Stacked loaves of bread onto trays, made the sandwiches, then bagged them.

I was surprised that there were less people than last time. This visit was better than the last because of this. During the first visit, I found myself sitting down because there wasn’t much to do because of all the chaos that was going on. But this time, I was standing up the whole time. Even though there were less people, I saw some familiar faces and ended up talking to some of them while working. Most of the kids there were from UNIS, trying to get their hours of community service.

After we were done with the sandwiches, I started to put rolls of bread into plastic bags. I was told that right after the “home less/needy” eat the sandwiches, they each get one bag of bread for the whole week. I was surprised by how much bread Village Temple had. I was told that Trader Joe’s donates bread to different organizations and Village Temple happens to be one of them. There were about 5 huge bags in a corner. When I tried to pick up a bag, the lady insisted that a guy had to do it…

While working, I noticed that the adult volunteers/runners of the soup kitchen were all women. Most of them were really sweet but there was one that was cranky. I guess it’s hard to wake up early and arrive there at 9:00 every saturday. At least it was for me. We ended up leaving at around 11:00 so we were at the organization for 2 hours. The time went bye quickly because there was a lot to be done. I overheard someone saying that over 200 sandwiches are delivered each saturday. Even though this seems like a big number, when actually making the sandwiches, the work is fast and easy. 

I’m planning on coming back next saturday and possibly going to Julians organization after my basketball game on monday (2/8).