Day of Caring is an annually event that
brings people together in the Santa Barbara County in order to give back to our
community. There is always some work that needs to be done, whether it cleaning
a park or painting a school, and they can be found all across town. I know it
may sound like it is not much, but I guarantee that as little as this kind of work
seems sometimes it is precisely what our community craves for. For instance,
one of my tasks was “simply” to remove graffiti at the Bohnett Park – why the quotation
marks? Because this job was way harder than I expected. Seriously, washing off
graffiti isn’t nearly as easy as it seems. Back to my point: what seems like a little for us may be a huge thing for someone else.
This was the 23rd Day of Caring, and as always we had a big breakfast where we meet other people involved, and only then we head to
whatever place we signed up to help. It took place last Saturday, September 20,
and me along with a bunch of people (some were SBCC students and friends, but
many were people I’d never seen before) I volunteered to help out a few
non-profit organizations. I truly believe we should go out of our way to
improve the community we are inserted in, especially if it is not the community
we grew up in or if we don’t plan to stay much longer. I guess it is like we
are thanking for the hospitality.
However, the funny thing is that it did not feel like
we were working at all. Really. In the end a friend even painted me with
leftover green ink, and I found myself laughing with several people I didn’t know their name just a couple of hours before.
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