Weekend

I feel as though we got a lot done this week. November has been busy up to this point and it is only going to get crazier. But we are doing well. We made our first pick-up for One Warm Coat at the American Red Cross. They already collected 102 coats and will be giving us more. I have to say that this makes me happy. We delivered the coats out to the Community Occupational Health Project in Fruitvale. God knows that they need them. So it feels good to have done something concrete with the project.
On Friday I attended a meeting in which we discussed winter housing for some of the guys. We have been allotted 5 beds out at the army base to give to the men for a 2 month period during the winter months. The program starts this Monday and runs through April. It will be cool to get some of the guys a warm place to sleep once it gets cold.
We also had a committee meeting on Friday. It went smoothly, I got to talk about One Warm Coat and it seems as though we are heading in the right direction at the Men's Center. It is pretty cool to sit down with some of the guys that are high up at St. Vincent de Paul. I feel as though I am doing something (a little different feeling from the one I get when I am helping out one of the guys - neither are better than the other).
Tonight we are hosting a bunch of students (13) from St. Mary's College. They are doing some sort of urban immersion program, or so I think, then eating with us, watching a movie, discussing and going to bed. It will be good to hang out with the group of kids. There will also be some Lasallian Volunteers coming. It reminds me of my Appalachia volunteer trips at BC. Twenty kids in sleeping bags on the floor after a hard day of work. We will see how it goes.