Atsushi wanted to know more about Christmas in foreign countries and when I told him that my family and I has often done volunteer work around Christmastime, he got really excited. He's from Shinjuku so he wanted to do something to help the homeless people living in the underground malls and parks. I told him to make a list of ideas about what he could do. In the end, we decided to make presents.
We went to Donkey (a huge, cheap shop that sells absolutely everything...like a 100Y shop, but weirder) and bought all sorts of things that he thought homeless people might want. Warm socks and heat packs, candy and chips, wet wipes and juice. Atsushi bought it all and I helped him put all of the presents into neat little sacks.
Then, he went around Shinjuku looking for people to give the presents to. The elderly lady in the picture above looked so happy and kept repeating, "Thank you! Oh, Thank you so much" again and again. Atsushi was pretty nervous at first, but soon he started to feel really confident.
It's always nice to do kind things for others, especially when it's really cold outside.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Presents for Shinjuku homeless!
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That's so awesome... I'll bet you two made the week really great for a number of people. I prefer that kind of thing - making differences for individual people through effort - over just giving money. I mean, giving money is great of course, but when you touch people individually like that, there's something really nice about KNOWING one person's lot was improved. But that's probably selfish.
We're big volunteer people over Christmas, too. Everything's closed, so we have nothing to do but work at soup kitchen, ha. Anyway, "Merry Christmas" to you!
What an awesome idea! Way to go.
Awww this is lovely!! A great idea!
That is so sweet of you two. <3
I also enjoy volunteering and I'm glad that you were able to pass on such a great idea onto that young man for this holiday!
Brilliant, fabulous - well done and congratulations.
Just perfectXXXX
Atsushi is a really neat musician, too! Here is Atsushi's website for his band, "Superficial Love".
http://lovesuperficial.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the support!!
What a wonderful thing to do! Maybe you will start a trend!
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