This project was designed to raise enough money (around 480zł) to pay for 20 Little Shop of Horror tickers for children from the Małopolskie Hospicjum. Both classes of IB1 were involved in this project where IB1A did two sales whereas IB1B did one sale. Thanks to the contribution of every classmate in IB1, we were able to raise more than 2200zł for the Hospice as a donation.
This project involved many different tasks:
1.) Organization of project and indicating roles for everyone (IB1A)
2.) Poster making
3.) Writing the article for newsletter
4.) Collecting books
5.) Baking sweets
6.) Helping out with the sale after school and during lunch
7.) Collecting and counting money
I was personally involved in writing the article, collecting books and helping out with the sale.
Writing the article for the newsletter
Although I enjoy writing and am pretty good at it, I still had trouble with this article. I wrote this article for two days, trying to figure out how to best make a quick but informative article with meaning in order to persuade every reader out there to attend the bake sale.
I decided to start off the article with a meaningful quote which applied very well to this situation: “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see”
- Mark Twain
After that, the writing came naturally to me. I had to ask by email my friends and teachers, including Mrs. Aneta and Mr. Lagendijk who helped me out a lot.
When finished, I sent this version to Marta Wnęk in order to translate the text into polish. Here is the article in a file.
Collecting Books
With the help of my family, I collected around 50 books from my house only including childrens, teenage and adult books (Grisham, Daniel Steele etc.). Returning from the book sale, only 10 books were left! I was very surprised that so many of our books were sold.
Selling books and sweets
Helping out with the sale required lots of patience, many visitors were young students who were quite shy and was quite a challenge to figure out what they wanted. During the "rush hour", 3:30, the room was crowded with children and parents. This was when things became tough for me. I had to run from one side of the room to the other, from one customer to another. Kristina and I also controlled the popcorn machine. On Monday, we were not prepared for the huge demand and many kids were waiting in a long line. On Wednesday, of course, we improved our strategy. However, I managed and am very proud of myself. One thing that I wish I had done then was to help out more with the descriptions of books and sorting them out. Sometimes, the books were piled up and was hard for the visitors to see all of them.
This service allowed me to improve my writing, "people" skills and team work. One thing for sure is that all of the trouble, rushing and missing lessons was worth it. I really hope that I can deliver the money to hospice or just visit to see the smiles on their faces. I always take the contribution to help others very seriously but at the same time I savor every moment of it. 
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