Day 2

Today was my second day at Little Bit. The morning went by really slowly and kinda sucked. I spent two and a half hours going through four large trash bags of grocery bags. These bags were a donation from the girl scouts and since they had been used for the April Showers supply drive some of them were unusable. I had to separate out the bags that could be reused for orders from the schools and the ones that were too damaged. It took forever and was extremely boring. Also by the end my fingers were grossly dirty and I found a dead beetle in one of the bags so it really wasn't the best morning. I had a lot of fun after lunch though. I got to go with another student and two of the Little Bit employees to their newest school to deliver orders to the students. This was the first time they had brought orders of clothes and shoes to the school so we had about 90 orders to hand out in less than two hours. There were 6 of us there and when the kids came in we would find their order and make sure the shoes and clothes fit because we didn't want to send them home with clothes that don't fit. The kids were so excited to get their new shoes and it was amazing to see how happy they were. A lot of the kids came in wearing shoes that had holes in them or that were clearly too small and their faces lit up when they saw their new shoes. We gave the kids the option of wearing their new shoes home or wearing the ones they came in with and every kid I helped wanted to wear their new shoes. One little boy that I was helping put on his new shoes and smiled super wide and said it felt like he was floating. It was so great to be able to give these kids something that they really needed and that they also loved. It was really hectic though because we had to get through so many kids in so little time and the room that we were in was pretty small and really hot. All in all it ended up being a really good day. I loved interacting with the kids one on one and seeing the impact of the warehouse work. Tomorrow I am going to a book fair all day so I'm looking forward to that.