52 Volunteer Activities in 52 Weeks

    • Aurora pulling off wall tiles (square)#3 Do Good Bus (Renovating a High School in Watts)
      Part 1 (Getting on the Bus)
      Part 2 (The Bus Ride)
      Part 3 (What’s the Project?)
      Part 4 (Demolition Time – Part 1)
      Part 5 (Demolition Time – Part 2)
      Part 6 (End of Working Day & Ride Home)
    • #4 Running Cameras at SCaLE (The Southern California Linux Expo)
      Part 1 (Intro)
      Part 2 (Actual Volunteering Part)
    • Judge Aurora De Lucia will see you now (square)#5 Peer Mediation Invitational with Western Center for Justice
      Part 1 (Welcoming Presentation)
      Part 2 (Beginning of Mock Mediations)
      Part 3 (Learning About Mock Mediations)
      Part 4 (Talking About a New Social Media Network)
      Part 5 (Feedback Talks & Tour of the Courthouse)
    • #6 Tree Musketeers
      Part 1 (Choosing an Environmental Activity)
      Part 2 (Digging Out and Recycling Trees)
    • Aurora making a face while making paracord bracelets#8 Painting New Homes with Habitat for Humanity
      Part 1 (Aye, Aye, Aye)
      Part 2 (*sings* All By Myself)
    • #9 Sorting Food with the Los Angeles Food Bank
      Part 1 (Arrival and Intro Video)
      Part 2 (Sorting Food)
    • #10 Information Booth at the Santa Monica ArtWalk
      Part 1 (An Absolutely Lovely Event
      Part 2 (But I Have One Rant… (Hint: It’s About Dogs))
      Part 3 (Cupcakes)
      Part 4 (I Feel Good!)
    • #11 Start Line with Marathon Kids
      Part 1 (I Hated Gym… Marathon Kids Benefits Kids Like the One I Was)
      Part 2 (What Is Marathon Kids? And the Beginning of Our Day)
      Part 3 (I Had No Idea What Excited Kids Are Like…)
      Part 4 (I Gotta Be More Careful How I Treat Females)
      Part 5 (Nice People… And Some of the Day’s Obstacles)
      Part 6 (A Small Problem I Probably Should’ve Foreseen)
    • #12 Feeding People on Skid Row
      Part 1 (The Oddest Event Yet)
      Part 2 (Coach Ron – The One and Only)
    • Aurora posing at the Fight for Air Stair climb#13 Fight for Air Stair Climb
      Part 1 (Jumping in with Both Feet)
      Part 2 (I Don’t Have a Blue Shirt, but It’s All Good)
      Part 3 (Getting Supplies to the Roof!)
      Part 4 (I Got a Blue Shirt, and I Felt Like a Princess)
    • #15 California Jazz Foundation’s Give the Band a Hand
      Part 1 (No Volunteer Coordinator)
      Part 2 (What Are We Doing? And Where Is Everybody?)
      Part 3 (Make It Work)
      Part 4 (Silent Auction and End of the Night)
    • Aurora posing as a silent audtion runner#17 Hope University’s Under the Big Top Gala
      Part 1 (Oh So Organized)
      Part 2 (Auction Items Running & Super Fun Night)
    • #18 Heart of the City 5k (Finisher Food)
      Part 1 (Making Sandwiches)
      Part 2 (And Moving Those Sandwiches)
    • #19 Making Care Packages with Operation Gratitude
      Part 1 (Grilled Cheese Sandwiches & Finding My Place in a Huge Operation)
      Part 2 (Having a Great Time Filling Boxes)
    • Aurora holding the goalball#20 Goalball Retreiver at the Junior Blind Olympics
      Part 1 (What is the Junior Blind Olympics?)
      Part 2 (What is Goalball?)
      Part 3 (Checking In and Day Beginning)
      Part 4 (Ball Retriever? No? Wait, Ye-yeah! Ball Retriever)
      Part 5 (Morning Learning Experiences (and Limited Lunch Choices))
      Part 6 (Coaching a Little)
    • Aurora standing in front of Super Cool Creamery tent uncropped#22 A Window Between World’s Art in the Afternoon
      Part 1 (The Event)
      Part 2 (What is Super Cool Creamery?)
      Part 3 (Why Did We Take Tickets If No Other Food Place Did?)
      Part 4 (My Brain Got a Workout)
    • #23 Reading to Kids
      Part 1 (Orientation and Such)
      Part 2 (Reading and Craft Time)
      Part 3 (The Little Girl Who Made the Morning and Helped Teach Me)
    • #24a AIDs Project Los Angeles S.T.A.G.E. (Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event)
      Part 1 (They’re More Than Fully Staffed)
      Part 2 (Nothing To Do)
    • #24b Technology Fair for Older Adults
      Part 1 (We Were Treated Like Princesses!)
      Part 2 (What Our Students Were Like)
    • Aurora doing the color shaking dance with a little girl#25 Girls on the Run 5k (Happy Hair Station)
      Part 1 (My Original Conflicted Thoughts On Working Happy Hair)
      Part 2 (Setting Up The Happy Hair Station)
      Part 3 (Am I Budgeting My Time Correctly Here?)
      Part 4 (Success (and Yay for Anosmia))
    • Aurora smiling huge while opening a box#27 Trash for Teaching
      Part 1 (What’s Trash for Teaching? And Unboxing Stuff)
      Part 2 (Letting the Kids Problem Solve)
      Part 3 (Letting Down My Gender! (Sorry Women))
      Part 4 (…But Mia’s Picking Up That Slack, Making Our Gender Proud)
    • #28 Walk to Cure Arthritis
      Part 1 (Being a Medical Volunteer)
      Part 2 (Helping With Ideas for Next Year’s Medical Tent)
      Part 3 (What The Day Was Like)
    • #45 LA Turkey Trot Water Stop
      Part 1 (Three Water Stops In One)
      Part 2 (Setting Up)
      Part 3 (What’s The Best Way To Hold The Cup?)
      Part 4 (End Of Morning/Clean Up)
    • #48 Re-assembling Care Packages for Seniors with the Mayor’s Volunteer Corps
      Part 1 (Ooh, Seems So Efficient)
      Part 2 (A Small Idea Is Started… And Abandoned)
      Part 3 (Oof. Doing Bags Backwards)
      Part 4 (The Assembly Line)
      Part 5 (Putting Cards In)
    • #50 Tech Mentor for After School Music Program
      Part 1 (What a Small World!)
      Part 2 (How Cool Is This Program?)
      Part 3 (My Contribution)
    • #52 Children of the Night
      Part 1 (Empowering Youth With Creative Games)
      Part 2 (More “Would You Rathers” Plus the Main Activity)

Thoughts at the end of 52 Half Marathons in 52 Weeks

  • Part 1 (A Recap & Comparison)
  • Part 2 (Habits & Thoughts for the Future)