It's not everyday you get a group of high school students to raise funds to sponsor a project at another school, hop on a bus from Torrance and head to South Gate, and give up a Saturday afternoon to paint a US Map on the playground.
But that's exactly what they did, and in record time I might add!
Aproximately 20 students from Bishop Montgomery High School teamed up with Operation Clean Slate and about 5 students at San Miguel Elementary in South Gate on Nov. 11th, 2008 to bring a large scale US Map to their campus.
What a gift!
Jake Roehl did a great job of getting everything in place to get his students over to the San Miguel campus. Once there the students jumped right in and got to work. Wasting no time they connected the dots to create the state borders and with paints in hand began outlining the edges and everybody helped fill in the middle.
We've never had 30 people working on a map at one time before... somehow it all worked wonderfully, and in record time too! It took them only 3 1/2 hours to complete. Just goes to show what team work will do.
Fernando and Melissa Espinoza both employed at San Miguel helped make everything run smoothly.
As a little bonus OCS supplied some hoola hoop fun by bringing in Jean Hooper, a hoola hoop instructor, to get everyone moving and grooving before rewarding the helpers with a little pizza for lunch. Jean cranked the tunes and got everyone's hips moving. Somehow my hoop didn't stay up around my waist very long. I tried to blame it on my cell phone holstered on my hip. Nobody agreed with that one.
The only thing missing was being able to see the smiling faces of the San Miguel students on Monday when they first saw their school's new map.
I think I have a pretty good idea of how they felt. Kinda like getting an early Christmas present.
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