Random Act of Kindness

This weekend was my first attempt at fulfilling of my random acts of kindness. I loaded my change purse with quarters for the purpose of donating to the salvation army bell ringers as I was shopping around town with my sister.

I also donated money to the ford scholar alumni association because I got their year-end request for tax deductible donation. In all honestly, I probably would have done this anyway. I donated last year, and was planning on donating again. I only briefly considered letting it slide, before reminding myself that this month my mission was to preform exactly this kind of activity. Also, they basically paid for my undergraduate education and my goal is to one day repay them for that, and then some.

I also helped an elderly lady at the ATM yesterday. Again, I would have done this anyway, because she was so confused (my bank just installed a new type of ATM), and who can resist helping old people!? But since I am keeping track of all my nice deeds this weekend, I figured I would include it.

This is a picture of myself with a group of Ford Scholar Alumni last spring at their leadership conference. The theme of the conference was "Leading Where You Live" and one afternoon was completely devoted to all attendees preforming community services. I chose to go with this group, and rock a walking path through a housing development.