service weekend highlight

March of Cards or Cards of Dimes?

By: Rebecca Ho

Unfortunately, I was not able to attend many service events this month. However, one of the events that I had the pleasure of attending was March of Dimes Service Weekend. I was only able to attend the card-making event on Saturday, but it was fun nonetheless. It was my first time making a digital card which was a nice change from making handmade cards and almost forgetting to mail them after making them. The event was very organized and there was some fire music that played as we were making the cards. The PHHS officer that was in charge, Alice Nguyen, shared her screen too while making her cards on Google Slides. I thought it was inspiring to see how she made them, especially since she helps out with making flyers and the newsletters, so she's really creative. The vibes of the event were immaculate and I had a nice time seeing almost everyone's faces with their cards at the end when we were taking the group picture.

For the month of March, I only signed up for one service event--card making for our March of Dimes Service Weekend. This was one of the first collaborations with Independence high school as we volunteered under one common goal: creating cards for nurses and doctors in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit). We made these cards digitally using apps such as Google Slides, Procreate, Photoshop, etc. We could also create handmade cards/letters to email our work to the hospitals at Kaiser. The overall organization of the event paired with its atmosphere of volunteers reminded me of why I am Key Club despite our current circumstances--to help someone know there are other individuals who care and support other these people of society, especially to those putting themselves at risk for the sake of others.

Urgent Card Making

By: Adora Nguyen

Hesitant on whether or not I should sign-up for this event, I decided to commit to the sign-up and with my little knowledge of knitting, hopefully, create a small blanket that'll be donated towards those in need. This was going to be my first time officially knitting (not practice!), which did make me a bit nervous. Whilst knitting, I couldn't continue to create rows without finding a way to tangle my yarn and create knots, which really made me feel a bit frustrated. Although it was quite a hard journey for me and my knitting hands, I thought it was still pretty exciting because it was such a new experience for me, learning how to knit blankets and knit in general. Although I was pretty bad at it, I definitely wouldn't consider knitting to be out of my list of "things to learn how to do," if I do buy yarn for myself eventually.