Adventures of a lumbering Giant Panda: Brightest Firefly

Adventures of a lumbering Giant Panda

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Brightest Firefly

Yesterday was our first real day at our assignments here in Chicago. We are each assigned to a certain charity or outreach of some kind while we are here in the states. Jon and I both were assigned to work at a place called Catholic Charities. Catholic Charities is an outreach mission which is designed to help people who are struggling too make ends meet for one reason or another. The organization tries to help in everything from basic food supplies to helping pay thats months rent.

Both Jon and I's main job at the catholic charities as of now seems to be mainly helping them with simple data entry into there computer system. I am alright with this of course what with the fact that I have done it before and computers are something I seem to excel at. However Jon and I both wish that they would give us something to do to help break the monotony of just entering in card after card of data. I don't think data entry is permanent thankfully at least I hope it isn't and I can't wait to help out the charity in other ways as well.

Today was a Saturday the only day of the week we really have all to ourselves. While the rest of the team headed out too a German festival, I took some time for myself and headed out to Chinatown. I spent most of the day there just wandering the streets and exploring all the different shops both the tourist based ones and the authentic Chinese markets. It was quite fascinating to say the least, I definitely can freely admit I like Chinese culture alot, and hope to someday be able to speak/read mandarin Chinese.

posted by Kevin Gray @ 10:50 PM

1 Comments:

At September 10, 2007 at 7:35 AM, Krista said…

glad you had a good free day