Day 6 Joplin 211

Ah it's still raining! The whole entire time we have been here it's been raining! This is crazy!! Anyways.... today they called our group and asked for two of us to go back to the fire station, they mentioned that they loved the hard work we did and needed more helpers. The rest of us went back to the Salvation Army Distribution Center to finish sorting some more clothes. I remembered from the last time we were there we left the place with eight shirts or so in a stack, and if the tables had to many stacks on them, we placed them in boxes and packed them up in their respective sizes. However when we arrived today, there was a group of middle school aged volunteers there, and they had honestly created complete havoc in the warehouse. The children were not even folding the clothes, just tossing them on the tables with the right sizes, and some were not even caring to look at the sizes at all! All of us felt very mad as we realized that we cared enough about the work we were doing for the people of Joplin who had gone through so much, and that volunteers who don't care about their work are inadvertently hurting the people of Joplin. 

After the group had taken a break for lunch, their group leader approached me and asked for my honest opinion about the work they were doing. I am not a confrontational person at all and hate it when I am confronted so I was very nervous at first, but I was not going to let this slide. I told him very nicely that I understand the kids probably wanted to be outside and clean up sticks but due to the rain that wasn't allowed and told him that the kids being at a state of unrest were hurting a lot of the progress that had been done. We worked together to explain to the kids how to fold, and to not toss the clothing, and they finished within an hour. After they left, we went hard to work on trying to get the situation back to normal. We stayed till 5:30 folding, boxing, and sorting and finished a lot. I was very proud at how our group handled the situation and worked so hard to turn it back around. 

After a long nap and relaxing showers for everyone, we played some more "O Hell" with Frank and John, then left for a local Sports Bar and Grill called Pitchers. Pitchers was full of KU fans which made our win against NC State a great atmosphere to be in! ROCK CHALK!!! I can't believe it is already our last day of work, this week has gone by way to fast!