Today is our last day of volunteering and our Service Learning Project has come to an end. Our ending of our time has come in time with Ms. Cherie's retirement. Her last day is November 24th and since next week is Thanksgiving, we decided that today would be our last day. As a gift of our appreciation, Elizabeth, Amy, and I put together a little thank you gift. We gave her a pamper me bath set, that included lotions, scrubs, fragrances, etc.. We gave her the gift at the beginning of our time and she absolutely loved it. She had said that she never buys things like that for herself and she's excited to try out the new products. We took some pictures and talked a little about what she was going to do after retirement. She did inform us that her position had been filled by a lady, Nicole Harris. After that, she did put us to work on our last day. Ms. Cherie had printed out thank you cards for the volunteers in the spirit of Thanksgiving. In which she hand-wrote a little note on about 85 cards. To assist, we folded the cards, labeled envelopes, and stamped them! Thankfully we didn't have to seal them! I think Amy and I folded and stamped our own cards...but we both agreed we liked receiving mail. Her little, but time consuming effort of handwriting each of the cards just shows how much she cares about her volunteers and that also means a lot. She really did make us feel appreciated and I hope we made Ms. Cherie feel appreciated as well. I guess.."time does fly by when you're having fun" and our time quickly came to an end! This is just another chapter ending in my service at HHH, but just as the semester ends. I informed Ms. Cherie to keep me on file for the new volunteer coordinator so I could work out a time for next semester!
Until..next time!! Happy Thanksgiving!
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