2007-11-28

Blankets

Good: Amber runs a program involving her students in community service. One of the first projects is for the kids to make blankets for old sick people.

Bad: Amber's supervisor checks out the blankets and finds them to be of "embarrassing" craftsmanship. (Uh, yeah, they're not perfect, they're made by 11 year olds. I mean it's not like they're Croatian.) Amber is forced to spend hours redoing the blankets to make them more presentable.

Good: Amber gets permission to take some students to the hospital so that they can deliver the blankets in person and receive that warm gooey feeling of doing something nice for the less fortunate.

Bad: Amber leads her students and delivers blankets to patients in the quarantined, yet not well secured Infectious Disease ward until officials catch them and rush them out of the area.

Good(?): Amber makes the kids promise not to tell their parents about this "little" mistake.

It's reminiscent of when the Europeans gave the Native Americans blankets infected with small pox, except that this time the blanket-givers are catching the diseases.

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