'Cause I'm out on the club and I'm sipping that bub, and you're not gonna reach my telephone!

I just realized i had plenty of missed calls from Vifac over the past few weeks. I feel kind of guilty because they needed my help and wanted me to make a list of things that the government had given them to help the community center. Vifac received 400 items such as TV's, Home theaters, Ipods, cameras, mobiles, laptops, knives, videogames, etc.. from the government and Vifac has been selling these items for half the price they're worth and they get to keep the money to help themselves out. I'm still selling some of this items but i haven't been so lucky.

Once More, With Feeling.

This is kind of one of the last posts for this blog, but it is definitely not the last time i help at Vifac. Over the past few weeks I've been helping down at the garage sale, near Abastos. It is really a shocking experience because I've always been used to buying expensive clothes and stuff, but when I started going there I realized there were plenty of people who have to buy second-hand clothes or second-hand anything because they don't have the money to pay up for brand new things. This experience is kind of really important to me because now I see that not everybody has had the same opportunities and that when I'm complaining about not being able to buy a cd/dvd/videogame/clothes/you-name-it, there's people out there who don't have any money to even buy food. The prices are really different, I mean the regular price for a T-shirt is what $300? and there are t-shirts down at the garage sale being sold for only $20. Even though all of us are living in the same city, we don't realize or we don't see beyond our tiny little world that's made up by family and friends. We think the way we're living is the way everyone is living but that is completely false.

"Just know when the glass is empty, that the world is gonna bend"

Hey there! tomorrow I will be going to the garage sale to be isntructed on the pricing system, and stuff like that so be cheking soon for the new post about tomorrow's activities.

I can't help myself, I'm addicted to a life of material...

Since I'm finally going to start working on the garage sale, I figured there must be still something else for me to do. I will try to get used clothes, shoes, books, "used anything" for the sale. I know it will be kind of hard and time-consuming, but come on, this is me we're talking about.

I'll just have to skip classes...

I've come to decide to skip a couple of classe every now and then so I can give conferences about sexual abstinence. I wish there had been another way, but there were no conferences planned on the afternoon so I'm guessing that since i've already skipped some classes with no purpose whatsoever, it won't kill me to give conferences on the morning. I'll have to be prepared and have studied the presentation throughout the week after the holidays for when they call me saying they have an open spot for me.

Such a small world

On the 3-day weekend I left the city and visited some friends from Aguascalientes, who would have thought my friend is actually the head of the VIFAC community center at Aguascalientes? How queer is that? At first she told me her story about how she decided to help VIFAC. She told me that she had always wanted to have children, but unfortunately they just couldn't get pregnant, then they finally decided to adopt and they went through a long process under the control of VIFAC. Some time later VIFAC called her and told her that she "had a daughter" and they flew all the way to Mexico City to pick up the child. After some time, VIFAC asked her if she wanted to be a part of the center as a way to recompensate the adoption and she agreed. We chatted about the ways they were trying to obtain funds and even told me that the same barbecue we had in torreon a few days ago had been in Aguascalientes 2 years ago but unfortunately the people did not seem to like the cooking style so they've now started to sell Paella instead of the barbecue. She told me that it was good for me to be interested in being a part of the society and giving back something.

Fully rested

Ater two (three) weeks of being useless, i've finally found out something I can do to keep on helping VIFAC. Today I went to the office near Constitucion in order to talk with the person in charge of VIFAC and we've decided that I will start helping in the garage sale next sunday and will continue doing so all sundays from 11 to 2 pm. When I got there she was on the phone so I had kind of had to wait for her to hang up and when she finally did, we agreed on the details and she gave me a letter so the people working at the garage sale would know that I'm authorized to be there and am not someone else trying to steal things away.

Isn't something missing?

Hey! I;m more than willing to post a small reflection about everything that I've been doing, but it's 1:46 am. so I'll post a new thread tomorrow. Sorry!

More than just a fashion statement...

I got a feeling...

That tonight's gonna be a good night,,,, hmm more like: that yesterday was a good day.

So Yesterday was finally the charity barbecue near the Revolucion stadium. I got there at 11 am and quickly was asked to help around by lifting boxes, setting chairs, do all kinds of handful things. I had been selling tickets for this even for the past two week and i managed to sell 30 tickets, total.
We prepared around a thousand orders in 2 hours. I helped by carrying the trays fully loaded with chicken breast, legs, wings, you name it, to the area where people were packing up and serving the other ingredients. At 1 pm all i had to do was hand out the orders and receive tickets. After that I had a little chat with the person in charge of the garage sale to see if there was any open day for me to go and help by any way i can. She said I should go to the lieu first and be "trained" in order for me to be there by myself on sunday mornings. I left the place around 5 pm and when i left there were very few orders that had not been picked up. When I arrived home i was completely exhausted. I was really happy and excited about the event, but all i really wanted to do was have some sleep.

Today's the day.

Okay i wanted to write some words before i finally leave for the barbecue. I am excited and a bit nervous and really sleapy. I'm not used to waking up this early on sundays. Well, anyhow I'm off .

Getting Ready

It's saturday night, and here I am laying on my bed, my mind wandering about such incoherent things but one thought that seems to outstand: Gee, I have to wake up early tomorrow morning in order to help at the the chicken barbecue. Dammit, how could i have forgotten?

I know this may sound shocking, but i am in fact a little bit nervous about tomorrow's activity. I have been waiting for this moment throughout the whole and now it's so close I can almost feel it. Let's hope for the barbecue to be a rotund succes. I've never been involved in any event or momevent similar to this one and im starting to like charity work.

Sold out.

Finally, whou would have though that all the tickets for VIFAC's pollocoa on sunday would be sould out already? Ehm okay, actually, I did. You know I spent 24/7 trying to sell tickets, so even though it is amazing, it does not surprise me. I know some people would say it definitely is not the same thing helping by giving your own money and recollecting money from somebody else, but to me it depends on the situation. Sometimes you realy want to help a cause but you have no means to do it so, that's when you can "sacrifice" your time and try to get funds from other people.

Website

Here's VIFAC'S official webpage:

http://vifac.org/

Why bother?

Seriously, why do we even bother to commit ourselves to certain activities?

What's the point of raising funds for pregnant women when you don't even get a 10%?
What's the poing in handing out flyers? It's not like people even say thank you or anything.

We should not be in it for the money, we should do it for the thrill of not being selfish even if it just for about 2 hours a day or sometimes even less. At first when i found out we would have to do our community service i was hating it! but then as i signed up on VIFAC and started working I realized it really wasn't that bad. In this precise moment, well I'm not loving it but I'm actually starting to like it.

Hungry? buy some chicken!

Haven't you ever asked yourself: Is there something I can do to help the others without sweating or without spending lots of money?

Well now there is a way to do so. Since I'm helping VIFAC, I am selling tickets for their annual chicken barbecue, all you have to do is buy one ticket and go pick up your food. There's nothing hard about it.

The reason why I chose selling tickets is because there was no other available option, but dont get me wrong, I am really enjoying this experience. I enjoy convicing people to help pregnant woman and in return they even get to eat chicken =D.

New begginings.

Every single person in this world has the right to life, but there's something that really intrigues me, not everyone really has the chance to live. Abortion is a subject with huge moral impact on society, wheter society's against it or not.

This is a reason why I've chosen to do my social service in VIFAC, a community center that helps pregnant women with very little or no resources at all. Sure, I'm "forced" to accomplish 50 hours of social service, but my plan is to keep going to the center after the semester is over.

There's nothing wrong in helping the others.

Vifac