Last weekend I had the opportunity to participate in the first international Big Event. For those of you who are unaware, the Big Event is a Texas A&M service project involving over 10,000 students. Our Big Event here in Barcelona was only about twenty strong, but we still managed to help out the community.
All afternoon we worked on small projects for the Vallcarca neighboorhood of Barcelona. I was with the group who worked in the garden.
It felt so great to be able to spend time in such a unique garden.
We build a fence in the front of the garden out of wooden pallets and planted some pretty flowers. A few hours into our work, some of the community members called for a break to have tea and treats.
I felt so welcomed by the people, they were all nice and down-to-earth.
They were satisfied with the work that we did there and thanked us many times. Even though our Big Event was on a much smaller scale, I feel like we made an important impact.
Ps. Thank you Celso Rojas for the wonderful photos.
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