I am very frustrated. No one in my advisory brought in wrapping paper, so I had to bring them over to Allie's, my friend who is also in my advisory, house, so that we could wrap them. I'm very upset, because when I mentioned it during advisory, and no one had brought in wrapping paper, someone suggested that we use newspaper, or brown paper we drew on for wrapping paper. This made me very angry. Not only do very few people in my advisory seem to care about the doll, but the gall of suggesting that we use newspaper to wrap someone's presents, just infuriates me. We're supposed to be trying to give these kids an awesome Christmas, and wrapping their presents sloppily, messily, or just with material that suggests that we don't really care, just seems so rude, and uncaring to me.
Also, I am upset because very few of the advisories who had volunteered to buy for dolls have finished shopping and wrapping, and their deadline was supposed to be today! This means that I have to make even more trips to the Salvation Army, and it makes my job more difficult because I need to keep checking in on the advisors who don't have their gifts in. Hopefully, everyone will have their gifts in by tomorrow, because I can't drive all the way up to Hyannis on Saturday, to drop off any remaining gifts, before the deadline.
On the bright side, dropping the gifts that were in today, was really gratifying. My van was stuffed to the brim, and the boy who helped me bring the gifts in and I, had to make about six trips, with arms full of gifts, to get all the gifts in. When I saw the room the had filled with the gifts from all of those who had volunteered to buy gifts for dolls, I was just in awe. What I'm trying to do, what the school is trying to do, really means something. Because of our actions, we are changing the world, making it a bit better, just by making sure that one child gets gifts at Christmas.
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