Today, on January 31, 2021, I had the opportunity to come together with Professor Lewis, Professor Bussell, and students from the LCS and Homelessness classes in person to put together some Valentines goodie bags for hundreds of the homeless and senior communities around San Diego. It’s crazy how much a solid group can do if we come together with a common passion and goal to do something remarkable! While I was rolling letters into scrolls and tying ribbons, I kept thinking about how what we were making is about to brighten the day of so many people all over San Diego . After finishing the last bag and placing them in boxes ready to be delivered, I realized that it only took a little less than two hours. This was surprising with how many bags we put together, but it was amazing to see how much we had accomplished in this amount of time! It was also really nice to be able to be surrounded by my peers in person for the first time since last March of 2020. Being able to talk to other students in my class and my professors face-to-face was a nice change of scenery from only talking to them through a screen. Going back to the Valentine’s goodies, I can’t wait for the hundreds of people to receive their goody bag and enjoy it!!
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Fascio
3/14/2021 06:19:24 pm
Hi Kiela! That day when were able to make packages for folxs who were homeless and folxs who are older the time went faster than expected. While making the bags, it was amazing to talk with people from both classes, but especially get to know people from LCS even better. Also, it was amazing to get to know you when we were unfolding bags for others to pick up and fill up. It was very fun and stressful to keep up with the fast depleting bags! I do agree it was fulfilling to see the many bags we were able to complete and think about the amount of smiles we were bringing. To hear from folxs who received the packages and continuing to communicate with them makes me continue to do what I do.
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Ma Kiela OrtineroMa Kiela is a Global Health and Urban Studies & Planning double major from Corona, CA. A fun fact about her is that she has lived in 8 different cities (in 2 different continents) in the past 20 years! Archives
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