On my first day at the food bank I was a little nervous not knowing what to expect. Angel who guides the volunteers was extremely nice. At first I thought that I was going to separate food like it said on the website that gives the descriptions of what each volunteer does but I actually went outside and was put in front of a BIG box of broccoli not knowing what to do with it I just stared at it. There was 3 other volunteers there besides me one of them was a leader. as I looked at it Angel started to explain not just how to separate them but what they will be used for.
On Fridays the food bank gives grocery bags full of food to the people that need it. The broccoli was frozen so at first it was harder to separate. Also I am allergic to latex and this was the gloves they had (I didn't think anyone actually still used them) I told Angel and he search the whole building until he found the vinyl gloves for me I actually thought he was gonna have me do something else that didn't require using gloves.
The leader started to help us but then we was moving so fast he just kept putting the broccoli on the table every time he had broken down one box one of us had another for him it was actually quite funny its like we was in a secrete race. When we got done with the first batch I thought that was it and it had only taken 40 mins but than funny man (every time I went he always had something funny to say) drove his forklift over with another batch because we knew what we was doing and had a secrete race going on this one only took 20 mins for the same amount.
By the end no one had realized that time was up and there was still a lot more broccoli that needed to be separated and bagged but Angel said he would have the people that came in later that night finish it. The whole time we was separating and bagging Angel and the leader kept asking us if we wanted something to drink and made sure we was comfortable and didn't need anything which I thought was extremely nice.
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