July 29th

*Today we went to the soup kitchen aka. the Annex to work and see how it operates. I felt rather useless and misguided as there were many volunteers on hand but was glad when eventually we were given the job of washing and drying dishes, having a task helped to ease my tension of social awkwardness. Cross-Lines has many things going on, not only do they have a massive amount of volunteers from all over the state, mostly from church groups, but they are a mecca for people serving community service as ordered by the court. At lunch time I helped to wash down tables and then pour milk into peoples cups. I really enjoyed serving milk to people, I think because it was a simple way to interact with people without using direct verbal communication, I suck at that sometimes as can be seen while reading this journal. I must say though, that the Cross-Lines Annex is one of the most diverse environments that I have ever been in, the whole spectrum of human beings were represented there. Poverty is not restricted to one classification of people.