Manuela Medina

While I was writing the encouraging and motivating quotes on sticky notes, it also helped me because I was reading the quotes and it made feel that I could keep going and achieve my dreams. I started thinking of how it would either make other people feel the same way, and I was hoping on putting smiles on some faces. The sticky notes were places somewhere they were visible where people would see it clearly.

Overall this was a nice experience, this was the first shift and I had trouble finding where it was going to be set up because the wrong location was given out. However, when the right location was given to the volunteers it was simple to complete the tasks that were given to us. What we did was set out the things that were for set on tables and we folded clothes while categorizing them.

Since this was the last shift it only needed supervision of all the merchandise. This is what I did until it was time to put up everything. I had to help place all the things that were not bought, back into the boxes where they were once. After that was done, the tables were put up and then the rest was handles by staff members.

Things that were placed on the tables for display were constantly moved by students so it was our responsibility to help keep things in place. As things were being bought, new things were placed on the tables for students and faculty to buy for their own.

The run was around Barton Creek Square mall early in the morning that Saturday. When I arrived all the tents were set up already for the different stations where color would be thrown at the runners. All the volunteers had light green shirts compared to the runners that had white shirts and their running numbers. The volunteers split up into groups so that every station had around the same amount of people helping, and they had to fill up bottles with the powder that were used to throw the color. At the end of the day, everyone including the volunteers were covered with colors, I really enjoyed it and I have pictures and videos!