Today, we tabled in front of grocery stores, and if you don't know tabling then lucky you cause I'm gonna tell you all about it. Tabling is where you give out Agape service project slips that listed an array of items that you, the shopper could buy and donate to our local food bank (Basically a food drive), and the items then would go to our local migrant families in our community. We had a lot of success. After returning back to Sacred Heart and discussing our experiences tabling, we headed out to the migrant camp to hang out and play with the kids. We had so much fun interacting with them and we all got involved playing games and meeting each other. We had a lot of fun playing a game of sprout ball with the kids, in which I got out many times in bitter defeat or shall I think otherwise? The kids were smiling the whole entire time throughout the game while balls were flying through the air and somehow always hitting me, mostly in the head, but it was fun anyways cause the kids were happy and we were happy, that's all that mattered. Upon returning from the camp, we were introduced to another eye opening simulation. We were divided into families and set out to work, picking up beans one by one off the floor. We were faced with financial expenses such as; paying off loans, renting tools, and traveling to new places where better paying jobs were expected. Many of us were split up from our families and faced debt for periods of time. Another struggle was trusting the word of the illegal smuggler who said he would bring us to America, but often left us stranded, with no choice but to return to the original bean-picking fields. Overall, the business in the new place broke down, exploded, gone. Leaving those who traveled with nothing, while some families who stayed in the bean picking fields *cough* Will's family*cough, cough* had money left over from working. It was a tough, not to lie, in both places, but we learned how tough the conditions and the struggles that are faced by migrant families.
Well that sums up all we have to say for now, but stay tuned for there's going to be more to be said,
I'm Will and I'm Dana and this has been today's blog.
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