Compared to my everyday routine, today was an early morning. Being a college student I typically roll out of bed around 8:45-9:00 to get to my 9:30 class, although I realize this is unrealistic in the real world currently in my life this is my reality. Today was an earlier morning than normal because I woke up at 7:00 to be at my internship at Redlands Family Services by 8:00 AM.

I had to duty of preparing and serving breakfast to the people who would arrive at 9:00. I helped prepare pancakes, potatoes as well as setting out bagels and numerous options for drinks. When the people arrived to eat they would all sign in and then come to be served. Unlike most days there were many children because today there was no school so the food went fast. Every person I gave food to were very thankful for what they were receiving, which helped make my early wake up call much more rewarding.

Although Redlands Family Service is typically only for people who are registered with them and not a walk in help sort of service, anyone including the homeless are allowed to come in for breakfast and dinner. Today there were no random walk ins, but maybe the next time I volunteer and help with breakfast there will be.

The second task I took for the day was to organize the weekly breakfast, lunch and dinner bags. These are bags of groceries for families who need emergency help. One interesting thing I learned while doing this was how they like to bag the food in the same grocery bags. For example with one grouping of food use all Vons bags and another can be Albertsons bags. At first I did not understand the point of this and then it was explained to me that they organize the food in this way so when the parents go home the children can believe there parents went to the grocery store to buy those products and not that they got them for free.