Garage Sale, Sarage Gale
So a friend of mine, Ben, is going on this trip set up by the school to a film festival in Colorado at a high school called Talluride. They leave on Thursday morning, so this weekend they're working on raising enough money to cover everything on the trip. So I decided to help! On Friday, during the last period of the day, I had Photography, which is taught by one of my favorite teachers and an all-around cool guy, Mr. Abeita. I had completed the Photography thing we were doing at the time, so I offered to help out with what the people going on the trip were doing in the other room, which was organizing stuff that was going to be sold at the garage sale. So I went to help those guys, but what we did was less organizing the stuff and more commenting on its weirdness or awesomeness. Still, we got a little done. After the bell rang, the other people left, but I stayed. Ben and Kenneth met me in Mr. Abeita's room, and we helped unload some more stuff and put it with the rest of the garage sale merchandise. After that we went down to the Redi-Mart to get some soda and donuts before heading back to the room. So after school it was just me, Ben, Kenneth, this pretty interesting guy named Felix who's also going on the trip, Mr. Abeita, and Mr. Abeita's baby son Asa, who's adorable. We actually got a good amount done, and priced a good amount of stuff. We talked about lots of different stuff, including Seinfeld, and Mr. Abeita told us about his favorite movie, "Being John Malkovich". We stayed there and worked for about three hours, when Mr Callison showed up. Mr. Callison is the other teacher in charge of the trip, and he's Ben's, Kenneth's and my Creative Writing teacher. He is also one of my favorite teachers and an all-around cool guy. After he showed up, we unloaded some stuff he was giving to the cause, then we called it a day. Ben, Kenneth and I went back to Ben's house and played a little basketball before Kenneth and I went home.
This morning I woke up at 6:30 and went over to the school parking lot to help out with the garage sale. At first, there was a good amount of stuff to do, lots of pricing things and putting things in the right place. I also bought a good amount of stuff. I bought this stuffed bear in a little canoe for Kenneth (Ben was there but not Kenneth), because he really seemed to like it when we found it on Friday. For myself, I bought Woody and Buzz toys, and SEVEN Bloom County books. For my mom, I bought an Egyptian-themed bookend (my mom loves Egyptian stuff) , and a VHS copy of "Strictly Ballroom", her favorite movie. While I was looking through the VHS tapes, I found a copy of Being John Malkovich, the movie Mr. Abeita talked to us about yesterday! That was a neat coincidence. Anyway, the day consisted of me eating donuts, Dr. Pepper, and handfuls of popcorn, standing outside the parking lot in the scorching sun holding a sign that said "yard sale", putting stickers on stuff, playing Frisbee with Mr. Abeita and Mr. Callison (that was cool), and talking to the people going on the trip. I only really knew two of the people (Ben and this guy named Joel), but the people I didn't know who were there seemed really cool. It kind of made me wish I was going on the trip.
At 1:00, we packed up all the remaining stuff and called it a day. Ben and I dropped some stuff of at his house, and then went to the Lotaburger for lunch. While there, I ran into Pam, a woman who lived in my Compound and who moved away several years back. That was neat. After lunch, we went to the Walgreens, where I bought some soda and Tropical Dots. Then I returned home. Ben went to a barbeque for the people going on the Talluride trip at our Painting & Drawing teacher's house, but I wasn't invited to that because I'm not actually on the trip. Regardless, I had a good time today, and I feel good for helping out.
This morning I woke up at 6:30 and went over to the school parking lot to help out with the garage sale. At first, there was a good amount of stuff to do, lots of pricing things and putting things in the right place. I also bought a good amount of stuff. I bought this stuffed bear in a little canoe for Kenneth (Ben was there but not Kenneth), because he really seemed to like it when we found it on Friday. For myself, I bought Woody and Buzz toys, and SEVEN Bloom County books. For my mom, I bought an Egyptian-themed bookend (my mom loves Egyptian stuff) , and a VHS copy of "Strictly Ballroom", her favorite movie. While I was looking through the VHS tapes, I found a copy of Being John Malkovich, the movie Mr. Abeita talked to us about yesterday! That was a neat coincidence. Anyway, the day consisted of me eating donuts, Dr. Pepper, and handfuls of popcorn, standing outside the parking lot in the scorching sun holding a sign that said "yard sale", putting stickers on stuff, playing Frisbee with Mr. Abeita and Mr. Callison (that was cool), and talking to the people going on the trip. I only really knew two of the people (Ben and this guy named Joel), but the people I didn't know who were there seemed really cool. It kind of made me wish I was going on the trip.
At 1:00, we packed up all the remaining stuff and called it a day. Ben and I dropped some stuff of at his house, and then went to the Lotaburger for lunch. While there, I ran into Pam, a woman who lived in my Compound and who moved away several years back. That was neat. After lunch, we went to the Walgreens, where I bought some soda and Tropical Dots. Then I returned home. Ben went to a barbeque for the people going on the Talluride trip at our Painting & Drawing teacher's house, but I wasn't invited to that because I'm not actually on the trip. Regardless, I had a good time today, and I feel good for helping out.