Food Drive Progress!

At the April 21st VolunTEENS meeting, we had a lot of fun and we got a lot done.  We started off the meeting after a diversion down to the children's room at the Albion District Library to  make ice cream.  With that taken care of, we got down to business- our icebreaker game!  This week, we played the 5Ws+H game.  In this game, participants right Who What Where When Why and How down the left side of their paper, leaving enough space between each to fold the paper back so they can hide what they write for any given category.  Once this is done, participants in the game write down a "Who" and then fold back that part of the page.  They then pass the paper to the next person around the circle and fill in a "What" on the paper passed to them.  The game continues in this fashion until all categories are filled.  Because no participant knows what was written on the page previously (unless they end up with their own back, which happens in small groups), the sentences that result are usually quite silly.  Some of the ones we came up with are:

• The talking Mercedes wrestled a shark while eating soup under the bleachers because people were singing with pepper and salt.
• The Queen of England ate pickles at the zoo at 6:35 on a Sunday because she saw a flying pig with a lollipop.
• President Obama ran into a vat of peanut butter and pickles next to the gym at the sunset because the clock broke with Santa.

As you can see, these don't always make much sense, but they are really funny when read out-loud and the result is always laughter.  This game was such a hit that we played it at two separate times during our meeting (once at the beginning and once at the end) it has been requested again for this upcoming week.

After we got some of our sillies out, we moved on to planning our food drive.  We decided on a pair of dates and the times for those dates.  We will be putting together our publicity plan and talking about how we are going to go about our actual collection when we meet this week.  

Dates, Times, and Collection Locations:

May 22nd, Saturday

3:00pm - 8:00pm, Corner of Porter and Superior Street (downtown Albion)

May 23rd, Sunday

1:00pm - 6:00pm, Family Fare (Albion)

Start planning to make a donation, we're going to be sending the food to AIM so all the donations we get stay local and help local people.  Keep a watch on this blog and keep an eye out for our publicity for more details and for suggestions as to what donations are most needed.

Want to get involved?  Contact AVSO at 517-629-5574 or albionvolunteers@gmail.com, or stop by the VolunTEENS meeting Wednesday evening to fill out an application.