Sounds like some fun, undercover spy-thing right? Well, it's not. It's a soup kitchen in the middle of downtown LA. My sorority went there this morning and did some community service. I was really excited to go because 1. I love my "sisters" and 2. I love helping others. So when we got there we got guided to the back kitchen and assigned our first task: open (what seemed to be a million) cans of sweet peas, drain them and pour them in a HUGE bucket (the plastic ones you put drinks in at parties.) So we did that for probably 2 hours. There were THAT many cans. Thank God I didn't like peas to begin with. I never want to eat another one in my life. Haha. It was really enjoyable though because we all got to bond while doing it. So after doing that for 2 hours and filling 4 buckets, getting pea juice everywhere and a few cuts...we were finally done. We got to rest for about 20 mins since we had been on our feet for so long so it was nice.
Then we got to serve the people that came in. It was a bit overwhelming after the first few people. I really started to feel so happy to be there and so blessed. People came young, old, handicap, homeless, professionally dressed people... all types of people came. It was amazing how thankful and kind they were. I really felt so blessed to be there. It was hard to see how many people are not as fortunate to live a life like I do. I realized how lucky I am to be attending UCLA, have a bed to sleep in, food in my refrigerator...just really blessed in life. I feel like God has given me so many opportunities to go to school and have a good life that some of these people never have had. It hurts to see these people be so thankful yet people that do have life's luxuries like a bed, roof over their heads, food in the fridge, not be thankful.
In all, I was really happy to be able to volunteer there today and I really hope to go again soon.
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