Week Two- Free Rice?

So it’s my second week of blogging and the question is back, what am I going to do this week? After thinking long and hard I knew exactly what I was going to do. Ok, that’s a lie.  I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do this week. With a busy weekend I had put it off until this week and I was now going to have to help out sometime after school. So here’s the problem, I need to help out, and there isn’t a lot of time. That’s when my friend Megan came up with the best idea. Freerice.com. Free Rice is an amazing website. It asks you all kinds of questions ranging from English vocabulary to geography.  For each question you answer correctly they will donate ten grains of rice.

This sounded like a great idea to me so I started answering questions. Before long I had reached 100 grains, then 500, and before I knew it, 1,000. So I set a goal, 5,000 grains. With the help of Megan, we earned 3,000 grains. After that Megan had to leave, but I continued to answer questions. Before I know it I had already reached my 5,000 grain goal and I had a decision to make, do I stop, or keep going? I decided to keep going. Soon I reached 6,000, 7,000, 8,000, 9,000, and before I know it, 10,000 grains of rice!  But that’s not all; as the week goes on I continued to check back into the website. It’s not just benefitting Haiti (where the rice is going), but it is benefitting me. I’m learning a lot, especially in the French category. I have been trying to learn French for sometime now, and this is definitely going to be a good source for studying.  By the end of the week I have reached 14,540 grains of rice. Free Rice is now one of my favorite websites; I can’t wait to keep earning rice in the future.

Week 1- Helping Out In the Sunday School Class

This week, I volunteered in the pre-school Sunday school class at my church. I love helping in their class. The kids are just so sweet! Since their ages range from two to four, their isn’t much of a lesson you can actually teach, but we try. My job, help keep the kids engaged in the lesson, pass things out, direct the kids to where they need to go, basic things like that, but to me it’s much more than that.  Helping extends beyond the classroom. Our church meets in a building that we rent out Sunday mornings; it has a giant jungle gym inside. After I help clean up I always meet up with my friends, then most times we go to find the kids in the jungle gym. I just love the kids and they love having someone to play with.  I remember when I was little I always wanted to play with the older kids and teenagers. It used to make me so sad that they were always too busy. But there was one girl who would always play with me, Lauren. Lauren was one of my best friends. She lived just down the street, and always treated me like a friend, not just another little kid. I want to be a like Lauren to those little kids, treat them like a friend and always be there to play.  Hopefully, as these children grow up, the will remember all the times my friends and I stopped what we were doing to play duck duck goose, and follow them around the jungle gym, and hopefully do the same for the young children in their life.