Cardboardness

Ok so i have realized that the whole one post a week thing has not been working out very well. I apologize.

Today though I am going to tell ya all about what i did last night. I slept in a cardboard box.
FUn right?
It actually really really was.
My school did this thing called Cardboard Village, where girls experienced homelessness by sleeping on fields in Cardboard boxes. we ate a typical meal served in soup kitchens, and weren't allowed to have our phones or ipods. It was not cold at all until morning. Then it was freezing. It helped me to open my eyes to homelessness. Oh the thing that shocked me the most was that all of the money raised by this event and the one last year and the year before that, all went too the same person. ANd only one woman. It puts me in my place i can't even imagine that it takes that much to help just one person....

So not only am i more aware about homelessness, but i also got to talk to some girls in my class that i never have before. Me and my budddy Mandy hung out with one of the girls in Broadcast all night. She's soo sweet. and then another girl helped me and many build our box. Another girl was just really nice all night and i found out that another girl has a twin Brother. It was quite a great bonding experience.

So yeah thats my saturday night for ya. I feel a bit closer with a couple girls, and i feel more obliged to help stop homelessness in its tracks. Maybe ill volunteeer at St. Patrick's Center....

Thanks for reading :-)

Colleen