I thought we encouraged recycling!

Today has been a fantastic day. I did have to wake up a little before seven and get breakfast set up for all the groups, but my group didn't actually leave until 9. We went to St. Vincent de Paul's dining room where we served lunch. They are finally opening up and cutting jokes and getting my sarcasm which is nice. When we got there we weren't really sure what we were doing and it was a little awkward, but then it went great. There was a group from Japan there and my group loved getting to interact with them. I got to run around to the different stations my people were at and so I was able to see what all was going on. I also met a few of the normal volunteers there and they are fun people who were more than willing to chat with me (and we all know I love to talk and make new friends!) Then when we ate, everyone sat with someone that was being fed (this is pretty much a soup kitchen.) I sat with a lady and two guys. The lady was telling me she was from the area and then the guys chimed in for some reason. I told them I went to Clemson and one of them started to tell me he knew a guy from S.C when he was in prison. Then I asked him why he was in prison and he said robbery, but then told me that recently he'd been put into prison for recycling. It was kinda a silly thing. See, the homeless will often go through the trash here to collect things that can be recycled and they will take these things and get money for them, very small amounts of money, but still at least they are trying to do something. Well anywho, apparently he was going through the trash at an apartment building or something and the owner called the cops. It was private property, but instead of just giving him a trespassing ticket, the cop gave him a ticket for theft and he had to go to the county jail for 6 months (i think is what he said). How silly? The he recently got a ticket for taking recycling out of the blue recycling containers, which he probably won't end up paying. Haha, I was amused that he was given tickets for taking care of the ecosystem.

Then I sent my team out on a mission to use $10 to meet the need of someone in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood (hippy street) and I met with one of my directors. Found an excellent chai latte on my way back to meet them and made a new cafe friend! Always good. Then we went to Alamo square and got some pictures with the Full House houses. Good day all together.