YPL service project
Jan. 13th, 2013 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_sally_anneMy group visited a school where recent Hogwarts graduate Shivani Johns teaches.
She took over fairly recently, I think, and her predecessor was old and had some difficulty keeping up with the work. The whole school needed to be painted and also we patched a hole in the roof. Also, some places where the furniture hadn't been moved in about a century that needed a good cleaning -- we noticed those when we moved the furniture to paint.
It was good to feel really useful. We certainly appreciated Miss Johns coming in on her day off to work with us, and we hope that she finds the fresh paint and no-longer-leaking roof make it worthwhile!
I wonder if anyone wound up at the school I used to attend? The teacher when I went there was Miss Dixton. (She might have retired, however. I'm not sure.)
What sorts of work did the other groups find was needed?
She took over fairly recently, I think, and her predecessor was old and had some difficulty keeping up with the work. The whole school needed to be painted and also we patched a hole in the roof. Also, some places where the furniture hadn't been moved in about a century that needed a good cleaning -- we noticed those when we moved the furniture to paint.
It was good to feel really useful. We certainly appreciated Miss Johns coming in on her day off to work with us, and we hope that she finds the fresh paint and no-longer-leaking roof make it worthwhile!
I wonder if anyone wound up at the school I used to attend? The teacher when I went there was Miss Dixton. (She might have retired, however. I'm not sure.)
What sorts of work did the other groups find was needed?
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-01-14 03:26 am (UTC)Oi!
That'd've been bad with our group. We had Jimmy Peakes and Stratus Cuthbert, who are stringy but eat like they've got suction charms on their gullets. And that's me saying that! Plus we had Goyle. If there hadn't been any food, just think what he'd have been like by half-twelve! As it was, I had to head him off after he'd finished his, because I swear he was on his way to scare a couple of the littler girls into giving him theirs.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-01-14 05:05 am (UTC)It's a good thing the girls had you around to protect them.
But yeah, the food situation was just generally not on at all.