Our Blueberry Ambassadors were busy doing good in their community. A few Blueberry Ambassadors spent Martin Luther King, Jr. Day volunteering to help feed those in need, and another decided to spent time to write a child cancer patient a Christmas card. Our Blueberry Ambassadors never cease to amaze us.
This week's Ambassadors included Amy Hackett's group from Mott Middle College, Allison Frey's group from Bentley Middle School, Anne Strong's group from Linden Middle School, and Mary-Kennedy Jacob's group from Grand Blanc West Middle School.
Below is an excerpt of just some of the Blueberry Moments from each of the classes moments.
Being a Blueberry Ambassador means students are obligated to do at least three random acts of kindness -- to look for three ways to go out of their way to positively impact someone or the community. The actual number of good deeds is immeasurable actually much higher than that because each Blueberry Ambassador also asks those they help to pay it forward.
Through a partnership with MLive, the students' stories are published online. Below is an excerpt of just some of the Blueberry Moments. Check out all the teams' good work at http://topics.mlive.com/tag/flint-blueberries/.
To find out more about "I'm Concerned About the Blueberries," email BlueberryAmbassador@gmail.com.
Mott Middle College, coordinator Amy Hackett
Ngozi Womack
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For my second random act of kindness, I was one of the two kids helping make Christmas ornaments in the Student Life Center for Harley Brown, a student worker there. First Ms. Hackett introduced us to the Student Life coordinator, Dawn Vanniman. Then Harley showed us how to create the ornaments. I also helped wipe down tables with disinfecting wipes. I decided to do it because I talked to Ms. Hackett and she said she needed a couple of people to help out there and I thought I could help. I was at the Student Life Center in the Prahl building. Harley was happy that we helped him and later found another student to actually put the ornaments up. The experience impacted me because I wanted to help Mr. Brown with his task of putting up Christmas decorations.
Darissa Renee Ward
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For one of my acts of kindness, I have decided to look up a funny but kind quote and put it in a hallway. I felt amazing doing this because I was able to have fun all throughout this act of kindness. I was also able to witness the conversation that it started up. When students saw the poster, they immediately started up a conversation with people around them. Making new friends just because they had similar interests. I am very happy that just a simple act of making a poster and sticking it on a wall can bring people closer together.
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Kalianna Munerlyn
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For my act of kindness, I decided to help my friend with algebra. He's not the best at math, and neither am I, but since I was getting it, I decided to help him. At first, it was kind of difficult. We weren't really on the same page, and it was a little frustrating. But as we continued, he was starting to understand and by the end he was actually able to do the sets. I'm glad I was able to help him and at the same time I was able to spread kindness.
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Mott Middle College Blueberry Moments
Bentley Middle School, coordinator Allison Frey
David Pines
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I gave a winter hat to a homeless man. I gave him one because he did not have one. I gave him hat when he was by the gas station. He was thankful for the hat and cried. That made me happy because I was able to help people.
Sarah Marshall
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On November 4th, my church, St. John, held a Polish dinner in the hall. I volunteered to help work it with my mom. I gave my first Blueberry Card to Becky Beck, the young adult youth leader. I helped by serving water, collecting dinner tickets, and cleaning up tables when the guests finished their meals. We volunteered to work for four hours and fifteen minutes. I really liked working the dinner. Some people joked around with me when I collected their dinner tickets. It was a very fun experience for all the volunteers and guests.
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Bentley Middle School Blueberry Moments
Linden Middle School, coordinator Anne Strong
Ella Miner
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My teacher, Mrs. Molnar, was stressed out because the kids were giving her a hard time about the field trip and I felt bad for her and I wanted to do something nice. Something to show her that we are happy for what she's doing and we do appreciate it. So, I asked her what her favorite treat was and wrote a note telling her how great a job she was doing dealing with us annoying kids. I gave it to her the day of the field trip right when we were ready to get on the bus to go back to school. She was very happy and she gave me a hug. The next day she wrote me and my mom a thank you note. She told me that she ate all the candy I had given her when she got back to her classroom. I was really glad that I was able to make her happy and it made me happy too.
Caden Ball
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My first Blueberry Moment was found online. On Sunday, November 5, my mom read an article on a news website. She told me that a young boy has cancer in his brain. The doctors said that he would die before Christmas. His wish was to celebrate Christmas early. His message to everyone across the U.S. that he told was to celebrate his last Christmas. He loved and cared for Christmas very much. The story touched me very much, so I decided to send him a Christmas card. I also put a little message to spread the Blueberry Card I gave to him. The card was nicely written with love and care. I hope that his wish came true!
Grant Bentley
It was late on a Wednesday night, when I was heading to my Catechism class, that I saw the bell ringer at Walmart. We drove to the closest McDonalds and ordered one large hot chocolate. We drove back to Walmart where the man still stood ringing the bell. We approached with the hot chocolate. He had a nice tone to his voice when he responded he couldn't have it. Since there is a VG's across the street, we drove over there and offered the lady the hot chocolate. When we gave her it, she asked why we did it. I responded, "A random act of kindness." When I gave her the Blueberry Card, I was about to tell her about Blueberry Ambassadors when she said she had heard of us before in the newspaper. This experience helped me realize people can even show joy over the smaller things of life.
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Linden Middle School Blueberry Moments
Grand Blanc West Middle School, coordinator Mary-Kennedy Jacob
Tommy Bettys
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On a cold day during winter break was when I completed my good deed. As I was pushing my shopping cart back to the station in the freezing temperature I saw an older lady struggling to put her groceries into her car. I politely walked over to her and asked if she needed help. She looked at me with a surprised look on her face. She nodded as I put her groceries into her car and pushed her cart away. After I finished the deed I felt extremely good, but I could not help but keep thinking about the surprised face she displayed it made me think about how we do not do enough good deeds for are the community and fellow humans. I don't think anybody should be surprised by a good deed because this kind of things should happen to everybody regularly. This opportunity to be able to do a good deed has opened my eyes and showed me that everybody should try and do a random act of kindness every day if possible. Overall, I learned we should always strive to be the best human we can be and help people out whenever it is possible.
Charles Powers
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"Are you ready to get started?" Jenny, the announcer, asked us. "Yes!" everyone in the stands shouted back energetically. It was Martin Luther King Junior Day, so there were a lot of people volunteering. It was about 9:00, so Jenny started to call our table numbers to come down to the turf and put on our aprons and hairnets. After we had filed down the stairs, we put on the hygiene clothing and washed our hands with hand sanitizer. I then walked over to my table with my mom and brother and we introduced ourselves. I looked down at the table and there were so many bins of food, it was like a grocery store! When everyone in our group got to the table, our team leader, Dylan started to explain the process of making the meal. A moment later, Jenny spoke over the microphone explaining that there needed to be a 'runner' from each group. We had a couple of high schoolers from Bentley, and they volunteered. The runners had a couple of different types of jobs; some of them would refill the food, some would collect the full boxes and replace them with empty boxes, and others would take the boxes to the trucks to be loaded up. After Dylan finished explaining the process of making the meal, we made a system, like an assembly line. First, my brother, Henry, would put a packet containing vitamins and minerals inside a bag. Then, someone would put a scoop of vegetables, then my mom would put a scoop of beans, then someone else would put a scoop of rice, and then it would go to a scale to get weighed. That was my job, and how it worked was that you had to weigh the bag and add or take out rice to get the weight between 388 and 390 grams. Next, the bag would get the air squeezed out of it and get sealed by a heat machine. I also did that part too. Once, on accident, I brushed my finger against the metal of the heating part and it hurt a lot. After it was sealed, it would go to a person who would put on a label, and then put it in a box. Once a box had 36 bags in it, our whole table would call "Box!" and a runner would come grab the box and replace it with an empty one. There were 25 tables, so there was a lot of work getting done towards our goal of making 80,000 meals. There were two types of meals: oatmeal and rice and beans. Around 11:00, Jenny announced that we were halfway to our goal. Immediately, everyone started working faster. With every bag that I weighed and sealed, it seemed like time was speeding up. All of a sudden, we started to run out of vegetables. We had to use more rice and fewer vegetables. All of the runners started to come around with big bags of vegetables. After they refilled everyone's containers, progress resumed. Around 11:50, we started to get low on beans. A couple of other tables had to stop because they didn't have any beans. We kept going, and at 11:55, we had reached our goal! I was so glad that we had made it because it saddens me to think of world hunger. I was also glad that the meals would be going to Genesee County. It felt really good to help people in need and volunteer. There was a lunch provided there, but my family left early to go eat at home. I am very thankful that I can have food on my table at every meal. I learned that I should really appreciate my blessings and be grateful for what I have.
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Grand Blanc West Middle School Blueberry Moments