Volunteering at RMH

Journal Entry for 18 Apr 2006
From: Heri
Location: Kansas

Today was a big day for us. We went to the new Ronald McDonald House in Kansas City, MO that opened on Feb.14th to learn to be a volunteer

Liz had been a volunteer at the old house that was closed when this new house opened. This was her first time to volunteer at this house, so both of us were learning how this house operates. It's a lot different because the old house was just that; a house turned into a RMH. It had 11 rooms for families to stay. This new house was built just to be a RMH. It has rooms for 41 families and the staff has their offices located there.

We did a lot of things today!

We were pretty good at answering the phones since Liz had done that before.

We learned how to check in new families and enter them into the computer.

We helped people find clean bedding and check out

We answered a lot of questions People thought we knew what we were doing since we were sitting behind the desk.

Before we left we visited with the two ladies that keep up the scrapbooks for the house We didn't help with that today. We were tired by the time they arrived.

We're going to rest now. Talk to you all soon.
Your tired but happy Heri Poh