Sunday, October 30, 2011

Bangkok Floods> volunteered> human assembly line

As you may or may not know, Thailand (including Bangkok) is flooded. Now, you might think that flooding is just a non-serious,ordinary natural occurance. But truth is Bangkok is pretty much underwater. Two-story buildings are completely submerged in water. Crocodiles are rampant in the flood. Victims are trapped without food for days. More than three hundred deaths. Everybody's lives are effected by the flood right now. Pray for us and donate if you can. We are in desperate need of help. Two days ago, about twenty of my friends and I went to the National Stadium to help pack necessity bags for victims of the flood. We lined up in two lines, facing each other, and formed a human assembly line. Hah, its actually quite funny now that I think of it. Anyways, plastic bags would be passed from one end to the other and each of us were assigned different necessities (such as tissues, instant noodles and rice) to deposit into our bag and pass it along so that the next person could put in their items. It was a lot of fun at first and things were moving along at a constant speed. So we were like, "Yeh, we're on a roll! We're a machine. This is kinda fun. Let's quit school and become factory workers ( just kidding)". After a while, the guy in charge of the assembly line pressured us to work faster and faster. Our system got messed up since we were going really fast and were starting to get really tired. Two hours of "factory work" had gone by and man we were exhausted. So, that's a little recap of our "factory work" community service.