Over the last two weeks, Converge Students has held two volunteer projects in conjunction with the "Hello... My Name Is... series. The first one was creatively called "Hello My Name is... Volunteer". After attempts at trying to merely get the point across via the use of simple lingo and uncomplicated terminology, we decided to just be overly creative and go with the word "volunteer". Last Friday night, a few of our students volunteered to help set up the movie screen at Ashburn Elementary for family movie night - afterwords, we went and played sand volleyball. Personally, I'm glad we went because there weren't too many people interested in helping.



The second of the two events was entitled "Hello My Name Is... Generosity" - and gained much more student attention that the previously noted project. Undoubtedly because of the impact we though we'd make, we had significantly more students. The project was simple: donate money to buy supplies, package them, drive them to dc, hand them out to the homeless, and change the world one student at a time. We convened on Friday night and spent $465 dollars on supplies, after which we headed off to the Adams' house to pack it up... Saturday morning we headed down to DC and handed all our packages out in approximately 2 minutes! We were completely swarmed by homeless people (we were being safe and cautious, however) when we stepped out of the vehicles. It was so much fun! And a great opportunity to watch the students invest in the lives of homeless people. Since I have a short week this week, our liveon25 was donated to this project to help with food supplies.

Oh, and I am working on a cool movie regarding the trip... Here is a picture of the opening scene... Be sure to check out the website when it is up!! www.j10students.com