West Seattle Academy

This past Wednesday the middle school students at West Seattle Academy hopped in the van and headed to the Miller Community Center on Capitol Hill.  The Miller CC works together with the Country Doctor Community Clinic each year to host a giant holiday party for the clinic’s patients and other (mostly disadvantaged) families in Seattle.  Kids ages 0-10 will show up with their families  this Saturday December 15th from 10am-2pm to enjoy games, receive presents, and have a holiday meal.  Nearly 1,500 gifts are given away and the center needed a lot of help from volunteers to wrap the presents…which is where WSA stepped in.  Each student and teacher wrapped anywhere from 20-30 gifts each in two hours, working together to wrap nearly 400 presents for the event.  Below is the slideshow of photographs from our event, along with a lovely write-up from our crack reporter, Chiara.

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Miller Community Center Holiday Gift Wrapping 2012

By Chiara P-7^th Grade

 Hi everyone! Happy Friday!  Soooooooo…. how is everybody? I know the holidays are coming up, and you’re probably busy prepping for Christmas or whatever you celebrate, well so are we. Two days ago (December 12, 2012), we went to the Miller Community Center and helped wrap presents for the needy. There were tons of store-bought gifts for children, including teddy bears, pillow pets, and coloring books. Of course there were many other ones (obviously, we couldn’t just rely on pillow pets and coloring books for 1,500 children could we?) but I cannot remember them because I was so focused on nursing tons of paper cuts and snacking on gingerbread cookies with my wonderful friends (who are all certifiably insane, just like me). After the gift wrapping, (we ended up wrapping about a quarter of the presents! Yay!) we went to a Vietnamese restaurant in the International District. The food was very good (I highly recommend the grilled chicken), and when we finished, we went to the amazing fortune cookie factory across the street where we all bought fortune cookies…(or if you’re like my friend Miya a.k.a. Head Author of ‘I On I Interviews’ just mooched fortune cookies off of everyone…hehe in case you’re reading this Miya, I love youuuu!). Overall, It was a really awesome day, and it felt very good to be able to help bring smiles onto children’s faces this season, and I really want to do it again.