I volunteered last night with two friends of mine for the 5km breast cancer walk from Circular Quay to Darling Harbour and, it was amazing!

There was a miscommunication at the beginning, well actually aside from some gigantic non communication at the beginning which led us to having a lot of free time for the first half of the event. But once we all came back, got briefed, got into our positions, and got ready for the walkers, the atmosphere was full of fun and a lot of enthusiasm and laughter! I guess because volunteers at an event have that common bond of being a volunteer, that it wasn’t that hard to have a few laughs, and once we felt like we were doing something you could tell that everyone was getting excited to see the walkers finish.

When the first trickle of walkers runners came through we were all competing to get them to come through our rows, but man once it got busy it was crazy! I was handing out the showbags and once my row ran out of the already unpacked bags and had to start hurriedly opening new boxes I moved to the opposite row to start on their mountain of showbags and man it was absolutely crazy.

But it was amazing! So many people came through and so many of them were just beautiful and smiling and appreciative! We could tell that they appreciated us, it was a wonderful feeling.  A kid high fived me!

My face really hurt from smiling last night, It was amazing!