Also known as volunteer work. My two friends were doing it, so I decided to join them at a small alternative schools fair. When the lady in charge of the volunteers listed jobs, I picked face painting.

We had to get there at 9am to help with the setup but we decided to meet 15 minutes from my house so we could all go together. I’ve hardly ever woken up at 7:45 am on a saturday, but it kind of felt refreshing. We got there and were put to work. Now, for my previous volunteer hours I did stage work. It involved lifting many metal stages risers from under the stage, to ontop of the stage. It wasn’t a fun job, these things weigh 90 pounds. We had to carry two of these, across the parking lot for a mini-stage. Bleh. Then I got to set up the face paint stuff. It was then I was told that I would not be working with some cute girl, it would just be me, all alone. So I was kind of freaked, and kind of really super cold. But Starbucks was there, and staff got free food. Which means me! We took total advantage of this.

Notes on face painting:

- I was told to paint my own face, and so I did in the form of a kitty.

- Face paint is really annoying to use. It’s this creamy stuff, that is kind of unrealiable, and I only had two sponges.

- Kids are really shy, can’t hold still, but REALLY appreciative of really crappy face paint.

- Parents are scary, and tall, and they gave me odd looks. Some of them were kind of mean, others loved what I did. Which is pretty cool.

- Best Face Paint: I did spiders, scars, a lot of butterflies (All turned out bad.), lots of kitties, hearts, stars, rainbows, a zombie, the batman logo!, spiderman, and dalmations. Plus some random stuff. It was kind of cool to be told what to do and then totally struggle with it.

- Face paint makes your fingers all gross. I had to wipe my hands on my pants since I couldn’t go get napkins, I really hope these wash off. (Though, they’re kind of turning into painters pants.)

-Sparkle glue is fun. Dry sparkles are not.

-At one point there was a huge amount of kids wanting their faces painted. It was nuts. The line was long. It was horrible.

Clean up:

Finally somebody announced it was done, so we raided the girls making cotton candy. (Which, my god, is amazing.) And the girls doing the popcorn machine. (Also amazing.) Then we had to lift all sorts of heavy things, and I’m weak and can’t lift things properly so my entire upper body is dead. (Especially my chest, which hurts A LOT.)

Overall it was kind of enjoyable. I hadn’t really face painted anybody but myself, and little kids are kind of cool. School fairs are always cool, they had a live band that was pretty funny as well.

P.S. I don’t really need anymore volunteer hours for school…. (We need 40 hours to graduate.) (I now have 66!)

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