09/25/09

Today I did not get to interact with the kids. My supervisor, some members of the youth council, and I set up a booth at the Cockadoodle days festival that we have every year in Corydon. I helped to advertise some upcoming events. We passed out flyers for our Fall Festival, which I will be unable to help with since I have school that day, and brochures about the Boys and Girls Club of Harrison County in general. Some of the kids that I work with were there due to their involvement in Boy Scouts.

We also sold drinks for $1.00 each. We had a ring toss game at our booth. If a player got three rings around the sticks in one try, they won a free drink. They got a color-changing pencil just for trying. I also walked around and visited with people that I knew and told them to come check out our booth and learn a little bit about the organization. My supervisor also got to meet my grandpa (who also had a booth set up there). I was really exctied about that. It was great to be able to go out into the community and interact with people. That's what organizations do a lot of the time. You cannot just sit there and expect people to come to you. You've got to go to them. Some people did not even know that we existed in Corydon.