Food Lifeline Day
Mar. 1st, 2008 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wickedwordsIt's the first Saturday of the month, so that's the day we often go help with Food Lifeline. Today we had 2 other volunteer groups with us, including one that was doing a team building exercise for a church mission in Haiti. They were hugely enthusiastic and I'm afraid their eagerness and go-gettem attitude made my head hurt; I felt very old and grumpy by the end of the shift, while they were still all eager and wide eyed, challenging each other as to which of their groups would box up the most frozen corn.
And as they'd made some changes in how the frozen foods were repackaged, we got to work in the heated part of the warehouse, and those efficiencies helped a lot. I don't know if it was more the new process or the new volunteer's enthusiasm, but we repackaged more corn than we'd ever done before in a three hour shift and we got to take a full 15 minute break. I have no idea who won the church's self-challenge, but all the volunteers together packed up almost 10,000 lbs of frozen corn, enough for over 7,000 meals.
If, you know, you were gonna only eat corn. *g*
My hands were frozen by the end of my shift, just like the corn, and I really loved taking a nice hot bath and thawing out. Now, though, I think it's ice cream time, and finally a chance to watch last night's ep of Atlantis.
And as they'd made some changes in how the frozen foods were repackaged, we got to work in the heated part of the warehouse, and those efficiencies helped a lot. I don't know if it was more the new process or the new volunteer's enthusiasm, but we repackaged more corn than we'd ever done before in a three hour shift and we got to take a full 15 minute break. I have no idea who won the church's self-challenge, but all the volunteers together packed up almost 10,000 lbs of frozen corn, enough for over 7,000 meals.
If, you know, you were gonna only eat corn. *g*
My hands were frozen by the end of my shift, just like the corn, and I really loved taking a nice hot bath and thawing out. Now, though, I think it's ice cream time, and finally a chance to watch last night's ep of Atlantis.
