Saturday morning I participated in Servathon 2011, a volunteer day in DC staged three times a year by Greater DC Cares. This is a major event throughout the city. Kathy had coordinated this and I was on her “team” which also included Maureen, Donna, and Tom. We ended up helping out with the Emergence Community Arts Collective (ECAC). We started by folding some fliers that some of the teams would be distributing to people’s houses, and then our team picked up trash along a one mile stretch of Georgia Ave. When Kathy picked an outside activity, she was thinking it was going to be a nice spring day. Unfortunately it was cold and rainy all morning so by the time we reached the end we were all like drowned dogs. Nevertheless, it was fun and we definitely made an improvement in the area by removing a lot of trash, all the way from Howard University up to the Metro station.
Afterward, we all went over to a restaurant by Dupont Circle and had some lunch (and tried to warm up). A fun and satisfying way to spend a Saturday, even if the weather didn’t cooperate.