Day 77

53) Volunteer 50hrs (12/50) Food Bank 4/18/07, Homeless Children (2) 5/2/07, 6/20/07, Sprucing up the Botanical Garden 5/19/07, Breakfast for Abused Children 6/2/07

Yesterday evening I participated in St. Joseph's Village Cooking and Art Fun! for the second time. This time there were a lot more kids and we focused more on the art than cooking fun. There were eight children total: brothers Junior and Marco, siblings Honey, Carolina, and Richard, brother and sister Precious and Randy, and last but not least, Victor (the only one I'd met previously). An art teacher named Mark was there with a couple projects. This man actually sewed together a quilt from fabrics that emulated the sea. Around the border of the quilt he'd interlaced a rope. We sat in a circle gripping the quilt spread between us, lifting it up and down to cause waves, while Mark read:

Down deep below the sea are the strangest fish you ever did see! Some are very small and move really fast. Some are very big and move really slow. Let's try to catch one we all know!

Then we'd all close our eyes and chant: I wish, I wish, I wish for a fish!
Mark would tap one of the kids on the shoulder instructing them to get under the quilt. And we'd open our eyes to see we had caught a fish! The kids loved it, though they all wanted to be under the quilt in the end.
For the second activity we rolled butcher paper out on the floor, taping it there, and proceeded to trace each other lying in crazy positions. As the kids grew bored with it and drifted toward the other toys I showed Honey and Carolina how to mix colors (ie: blue & yellow = green). Then the two girls made me a plastic feast as I read to them.

From an analytical perspective I observed how close in age the siblings are, Junior and Marco are less than a year apart, and got to thinking someone should introduce mom and dad to this invention called the condom.

88) Attend 10 year high school reunion

This summer happens to be that of my high school reunion, but having heard nothing about it, and having read nothing about it on the SOTA website I felt compelled to post this on MySpace:

Subject: ATTN SOTA alumni (repost please)
Body:

As you may have noticed, SOTA has ceased having it's yearly reunions.

This didn't really bother me until this summer, which would be the time of my 10 year reunion.

You see, I've made this list giving myself 101 things to do in the next 900some days (I've had alot of free time at work), and Attend 10 Year Highschool Reunion is #88.

So I ask you to humor me people. Lets assemble, somehow, somewhere, sometime this summer. At a bar, or club, or park, or coffee shop... the beach perhaps.

Let me know if you're in or around SF and interested in attending, or even helping me organize.

-Amber

Luckily, after not so many responses, Trin sent me this:

hey trinity

Can you pass on that SOTA has not ceased having reunions. the class reunions are typically held in august, because that's when people have requested reunions be held due to folks with kids, work schedules, etc.

Mr. Rosenblatt has contacted your class officers [who have historically been in charge of planning reunions with the alumni association, who funds the reunion], and they have begun working on putting together the 10 year reunion for the class of '97. If anyone is interested working on the reunion planning committee, please have them contact me at ron.mccan@gmail.com.

Thanks darlin'!

- Ron
Vice-President
SOTA Alumni Association

So sometime in Aug I'll fulfill this goal. Phew!