Cellphone Drive..

It's not common for people these days to help out one another without having ulterior motives especially if the person is a stranger. Apart of an English assignment, was to do an act of kindness in which you ask the person you help to pay it forward to someone else. My teacher preferred if one would do it for someone they will see again so we could find out how they payed it forward. For my assignment, I chose to create a cellphone drive at a dialysis center called Nephrology Foundation of Brooklyn. The staff and patients were asked to bring in old cellphones to be sent in to be recycled then sent to Iraq for the soldiers. The cellphones would allow the soldiers to call home. The drive was advertised all last week and the cellphones were collected on Monday June 15th, 2009. Each person who participated in the drive was asked to continue the acts of kindness and help someone out. The cellphones collected were given into my mother who sent in the cellphones to the founders of the idea of sending recycled cellphones to soldiers in Iraq. This project was particularly one of my favorite projects overall. Reason being is I like to help people and this gave me this opportunity. This project gave every student in my teacher's class to help someone and continue a rotation of kindness in the world. It sort of makes you feel like you are contributing to making the world a better place. There is no feeling like it.

Cookie Please..

A few days ago, I didn’t have much money. I was hungry and decided to spend my money on two cookies. After finishing one cookie, I decided to keep the other cookie for later on in the day. Ironically as soon as I made this decision, my friend was complaining about how he was starving. I decided that he needed the cookie more than I did. Basically I have him the cookie instead of keeping it the rest of the day. I may have been a little hungry for the rest of the day but it was worth helping out a friend

I wanna go home.

Everyday I have to pick my sister up from school. Usually it is around 5 o’clock being that she attends after school. Yet one week, the after school got cancelled. Most parents of the after school weren’t notified. On the first day the after school was cancelled, I went to pick my sister up when she got out for school. When I finally got her, she told me that her friend didn’t have a way to get home. His mother was still at work and wasn’t notified there was no after school. After thinking about it, I decided to take my sister’s friend to his house so that he wouldn’t have to be stranded at school and inconvenience his family. All I had to do was think about if no one would have been able to pick my sister up and how I would have wanted someone to care enough.

Meow!

While walking past my door on the way upstairs, I heard crying. It sounded like a cat’s cry. Knowing my cat’s tendency to wander outside, I went to check it out. The front of my house has an open garage. At this time, my grandmother’s car was parked there. Once looking under the car I found two cats fighting this one cat. The cat getting jumped was the one I heard crying. Though I found out it wasn’t my cat getting hurt, I still wanted to help. Getting the broom stick from the house, I started hitting the broom near the fight for the cats to leave the hurt cat alone. I made sure I scared both cats down the block so that the other cat could come out of hiding and continue to go on about its business. The cat may have not been human, but I still consider this a random act of kindness.

Last Bit of Change

Last week, my mother didn’t give me much money to have for the day. Throughout the day, the little bit of money I had disappeared quickly. Late in the afternoon, a woman came up to me and asked for money. Instead of being selfish, I gave the lady my last bit of money despite having doubts that she was genuinely in need. My friend didn’t feel that I should have helped the lady. She felt that the woman was just running a scam. I felt the chance of this woman having a family in need was worth taking that chance. If I was to ever end up like that in life, I would hope there was someone nice enough to try to help.