Acts of kindness in DC!

Hello everyone! Kendra here with another blog post! So this week required a lot of planning and a lot of improvising as well. It required helping people, talking to people, and a lot of discussing the next move. 

So the goal was for everyone to prepare 3 lunches to give out to people who needed them. We ended up all bringing different components to the lunches and then putting them together. Someone even asked for a lunch while we were making them! This took a while, but it worked out. I didn't expect to give out as many as we did. In the end, all of them were gone! I was so surprised that so many people needed lunches. It's pretty sad. 

Homelessness is a huge problem in Washington, D.C. and the U.S. in general. In 2013, there were roughly 528,424 homeless people in the U.S. overall. That's a big number. That means that the population of homeless people in America is probably very close to the population of Wyoming now. That's an entire state. That's really sad. 

We started off at Eastern Market. Only a few people went in for the interviews. Some stayed out to give out lunches. Easter market was built by a German man named Adolf Cluss. He designed other things too. Like the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building. In the early 20th century, Capitol Hill's population grew. This caused for new additions to be made to Eastern Market. It became the first unofficial town center. In 2007 the market was damaged horribly by a fire. To this day, they still don't know the cause of the fire. Easter Market is a historic building in DC and it's the only one whose purpose has stayed the same. It's been operating since 1873.

















If you want fresh farm food, events, arts and crafts, etc., then you might want to check this place out.

Next up was the U.S. Postal Museum. Me and the one other girl in class, Sil, didn't go into this place. Somehow the lunches got squished and all the bags were ripped. We spent the entire time of the boys being in the museum re-organizing the lunches. We also came across a rude guy. He was completely ungrateful and didn't even thank us for the lunch. I'm not even sure if he really needed one.


Next up was Capitol Hill Bookstore. This isn't like any bookstore. This is used book bookstore. There are first edition books and rare books too. If you're claustrophobic, this probably really isn't the place for you. But there were a lot of cool books.

Lastly we had a performance. We probably could've planned this out better, considering we got no money. Sil brought her poi with her, and she was good, but no one was really around at that time of day, we had no speaker for music, and it wasn't very obvious that it was a performance.

In the end, we got rid of all of the lunches and it felt great! It felt amazing to help so many people that needed it.