Newark board meeting compared to home

WOW! first off I have to say that the person who decided to put the meetings in the middle of a dark ally on ceder street was crazy. Not that i felt threatened or anything but it was the same street that a few friends and I decided to avoid on the way home from a pub. Now that Im done with that I can discuss what I noticed about the two meetings. In Newark the big issue in fact the only issue was when the board would regain control. They also talked of how they could gain points that where lost during their evaluation. Really much of the meeting was around that. While at home the biggest issue was the new "high ropes"thing that was just done being built in the back of the field. The idea was to have student go through this tangled mess for gym class. (DUMB) I dont want to hurt anyones feelings but how the hell are we aloud to claim 40 feet in the air with nothing more then another student handling the rope and yet dodge ball is not okay. After the people where done destroying the idea of "high ropes" we moved on to more academic issues A.K.A little john received and award and the board where discussing the proper people to speak at his little do-dad. The meeting ended with some more talking but truthfully at this point I was in near tears of crazy and found myself flipping through the booklet they gave me the described nothing. Between the two I would much rather go to a Newark board meeting again for reason of sanity. The issues at those meetings are much more interesting gripping then the ones covered at the quite town.

Community service part 2

This time i actually had to do something. First off I had not planned to do what I did. I did this one as favor to a friend. It was tuesday night and my friend from the apartment building came to me asking if i could fill in for a few people who decided to skip out on the free lunch service his hospital provides. Though I was offered money i decided to do it for free and count it as my service. From this i learned that people are a lot more great full for food when its not there all the time. For example if you served a typical student the food we served their would be stuck remarks and complaints flying around like and angry bee hive. But these people seemed so happy that they where being treated well and receiving food at the same time. Also the people who worked there are not the ones i expected. going in i thought that i would find the usually priest and old lady with nothing better to do. Instead i found the guy who decided to do something better in his free time a doctor who does stuff like this every week and a lady who has three children of her own and is a stay at home mom (A full time job if you ask me 24 hr work days). All of these people had other things to do later that day and where still willing to give in time to help others in need. That was something truly shocking to me. Now i cant say i enjoyed all 8 hours of standing there loading trays and washing them but i will say that i feel much better now then i did before and hopefully karma wont forget me.

Community service part 1

hey kids
Well my first 5 hours was not very tough. I actually held the down markers for a football game that was held on thanksgiving day. It defiantly took me back. The at points it seemed the crowd was more into it then the players. It was that whole rivalry thing and everyone loves that. What i found interesting was the side arguments on the sideline. They where not about the game and how to win instead it seem many of the players where simply trying to help themselves get noticed on what could be the biggest game of the year. I also witnessed a taste of racism. This came from a player who was on the team whose star WR and SS are the same player and I feel if he had heard what this player said he would not be to happy to share a field with him. As a whole the game was a exciting and well played match. If the few who felt the need to act up found the will power to be quite then it would have been the perfect game.