Good Morning, Vilnius!

Hey there!

I was going through the old photos of mine and found the ones from one amazing event that I've participated in and haven't told you about yet. It was called "Good morning, Vilnius!" and was dedicated to mention the International Day of Greeting. It was a wonderful event that brought smiles to a lot of people's faces.

 

I've heard about this event form my classmate who is a member of Vilnius Volunteering Center. Couple of days before there had been made a lot of origami flowers and cranes in that center, thus when we were informed about this event, they were looking for people who could give those paper works out to people on International Day of Greeting  (21st November). Of course, we happily agreed to volunteer and be a part of this beautiful event.

 

On 20th of November we were given four huge bags full of paper flowers and cranes. Next morning at 6.30 a.m. we were supposed to give them out to people in the bus stops of Vilnius. So, as soon as me and my classmate went to the bus stop that we were assigned to go, we started giving people our little presents and wishing them good morning. It was amazing to see how a honest smile and a paper flower in the morning can make people turn from drowsy and gloomy to happy and kindly surprised.

 

Therefore, volunteering in this event made me realize that a sincere smile and a greeting can cheer people up and make their day better. I understood that we should be nicer and friendlier to people around us as it makes us all feel happier!

 

This activity included one aspect of CAS - Service.

Fashion Epidemic

Hello, guys!

Another event that I would like to tell you about is the 'Fashion Epidemic', organized by some of my classmates. Even though such event initially has been held 10 years ago, it hasn't taken place for a while now, yet I can say that my classmates have succeeded in bringing it for a new life and I'm happy that I could help them with some organizational and technical matters.

 

The idea of this event was that there had to be two fashion designers who created costumes for two models who presented those costumes in the main celebration on 2nd May. The team that showed the most original clothes' collection  won a professional photo-shoot for the whole class. 

 

The students of Lyceum have been quite pessimistic about this event and thought that there would be no people interested in participating in it. When my classmates made flyers to encourage people to take part in the "Fashion Epidemic", people were still not interested in participating in it. Therefore, we came up with an idea to create a short commercial show to stimulate people to take part in the event. Since I and two of my classmates have done this kind of a show before a 'Pie Day', we volunteered to do it again.

 

As the name of the event was 'Fashion EPIDEMIC', we created a show where one of us was had an epidemic of fashion (she was dressed up with clearly tasteless clothes) and the two others were doctors who asked people for help to fight this epidemic by creating a clothes collection and testing it on two models. I could say that people really liked our mini show and four classes decided to participate in the event. Therefore, we accomplished our task quite well.

 

I also helped to do some technical works, like making decorations and preparing the room for the celebration.

 

All in all, I could say that "Fashion Epidemic" was a great event and it was a challenge for us as we had to figure out how to deal with occurred problems, like how to encourage people to change their opinion and participate in it.

 

All in all, this activity included one aspects of CAS - Creativity.

'Food Bank' (Spring edition)

Hey, you all!

It has been more than two months since my last post was written, so I have quite a lot to tell you!

First of all, I want to report about the second time that I've participated in project 'Food Bank' on 12th April. It was a smaller program than the one in autumn, yet it was still great to be a part of it! This spring project of 'Food Bank' was organized in the shops of 70 Lithuanian cities to help poor people, which is really amazing, when you think about it!

 

The main organizer of this project, Modestas Bastys, has been aware that students of Lyceum always participate in the events of "Food Bank" with great enthusiasm, so he showed up in your our school and told about this this spring project. To tell you the truth, there has been a full room of volunteers who wanted to participate in the program!

 

I chose to volunteer in another, bigger supermarket than the last time. That's one reason why this project may have seemed different to me. Of course, our responsibilities were the same - some of us had to give out the flyers and encourage people to donate, while others had to collect donated products, give a warm gratitude for generous people and mark those products in given document. I had the chance to try out both of these responsibilities; however, like the last time, I enjoyed collecting the products and thanking people more.

 

It was a strange fact that even though it was a bigger supermarket than the last one that I have been to during this project, the people were less willing to donate. Maybe it was because of the time (people tend to be saving more in winner and after it). Therefore, it made me feel really unpleasant as a lot of people were disgruntled and didn't want to be a part of this wonderful project. On the other hand, there were still some people who were willing to donate and even to do it in great amounts. Because of such people and because of ability to challenge myself in encouraging people to think of poorer ones and to donate at least a couple of products for them, I don't regret that I've participated in the project 'Food Bank' one more time. What is more, I had a chance to meet some really nice people who also volunteered in the event.

 

This activity included one aspect of CAS - Service.