I have declared many times in the past 3 years that Giving Tree Sorting Day is my favorite day of the entire year. The music, the gifts, wrapping the presents, the atmosphere is just so happy and perfect. I was extremely glad to be going back to the sorting day this year because I missed last years event while I was on vacation (I spent that entire day snapchatting and texting my friends asking about the event...and I might have cried a little bit). Usually I tend to stay at the high school all day and wrap gifts until they're all sorted, but this year I went out with a group of friends to go shopping during part of the afternoon. It was a lot more fun than I thought it would be: I imagined that it would be intimidating trying to find all the gifts in time, and I had this irrational fear that we'd lose someone in the store. But the trip was really successful and we got back in time to help wrap more gifts. I also got an opportunity to bond with some really close friends and one I didn't know so well before. I think all around everyone has a good time on sorting day, even the coordinators who stress out trying to keep us all organized. We all get a really good feeling from knowing that each bag of presents represents a good Christmas for a kid whether they are a toddler or a teenager (yes that does sound cheesy, but it's almost impossible to be sentimental about Christmas without sounding cheesy). On top of all that, several graduated students come back to visit and help out; It was really nice to see some of the kids that I went on previous service trips with. And their arrival always reminds me that I can come back in later years, which is nice to know because Christmas doesn't really feel like Christmas without sorting day. :)
-Ally Waxman
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