Adult present: Rachel Velazquez
This event was a blast! At first I was not happy when I had to drag my lazy self out of bed at 7:45 in the morning on a Saturday. Sure, I'd done AoG for a few years before, but the having to get up part always gets me. After I managed to scrape an appropriate work outfit together my family and I headed for none other but Grimsley High. We were given our assignment, Hunter Elementary, and we set off after a brief orientation.
It took one look at that school to tell that it was definitely in need of some T.L.C. There were a lot of weeds around the school sign, which was screaming "Paint me, paint me!" The playgrounds needed to be re-mulched and the classrooms needed to be organized, sanitized and a couple of them needed some minor painting done. All of this was to be done-hopefully-by 1:00 p.m. (Yeah, right...) But I threw myself into painting some cabinets a dingy color beige with some khaki-ish looking paint and soon forgot my scruples.
OK. I'm going to just come out and say it. Working at Hunter was the highlight of my summer/start of school. Although I was skeptical and lazy at first about losing half of my Saturday, I can say that I really learned what it's like to help people wholeheartedly, and how good that feels. All of the Agents of Grace projects come at no cost to the site that's receiving the work, and I think that's awesome. What I also thought was pretty amazing was the fact that the teacher for whom I painted cabinets was so grateful for it. For painting her cabinets that ugly beige khaki. She was so happy that I was helping her, even though all I was doing was a little painting, scrubbing and vacuuming.
Sometimes, I really wish I'd taken some pictures to remember that day, but that's OK. I was too busy...
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