HULA O NA KEIKI 2004

 

Written By:  Cristle Mae Pico

 

 

            On Saturday November 13, 2004, I volunteered my time to the Hula O Na Keiki 2004.  This event was held at the Ka`anapali Beach Hotel.  I volunteered my time to do community service because I didn’t really have anything to do on that particular day so I wanted to make use of my time and it was also for a good cause.   I didn’t do this because my friends were doing it.  I signed up for this because I wanted to help out our community by cleaning up.  Listing this on my resume was another reason I wanted to do this.  It is my senior year and I want to get involved as much as I can before my last high school year is over.

 

            We got to the Ka`anapali Beach Hotel at 7:45 P.M.  When we first got there, we looked around for Ms. Saribay.  When we saw her, she gave us our nametags along with our coupons for our free dinner.  We got our dinner and went to sit down and eat until the event was over.  After we were done eating, we took pictures and just sat around because the event was still not over.  Finally, when the event was done, we headed into the room. We started off by taking off the numbers from the back of the chairs and stacked them up into piles.  Then we swept the floor and others vacuumed the carpet.  We took the stage apart and swept the stage.  We folded all the tables and rolled them all to the back.  After everything was clear, we put out round tables into rows of four and put chairs around the tables.

 

            I thought that this event was more than what I expected.  I didn’t think it would’ve been fun but I was wrong.  It was fun because we cleaned up the room with employees who work there and they were funny.  We got free dinner and that was a plus.  We didn’t only get free dinner but we got free desert also.  At the end, we all took pictures.  I’m glad that I volunteered for this event because it was a great experience and it was for a good cause for our community.  I would definitely sign up for more community service work.

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