Revel In It

For the last couple of years I was one of the people responsible for our school's food booths at the Red River Revel.

Being our school's Revel Chair is a pretty big responsibility. Not only to we operate two food booths for eight days, supervise and coordinate a couple hundred volunteers and manage thousands of dollars in supplies, but the booths are a major fund raiser for our school. Our school which we really love and has become our extended family. The last thing in the world I would ever want to do is fail as a Revel Chair.

So the stress level was pretty high.

But this year, I've passed it on! Woo hoo!

I feel a little bad that one of the people I've passed it on to is a dear friend, but still. Woo hoo!

Okay, yes, on many levels it was an extremely tiring job, but I'm still glad to have done it. The truth is that working on this project helped me to make a lot of friends. Oh sure, I still can't pass a billboard for the Revel without that old stressful feeling causing my shoulders to inch up to my ears, but a had fun volunteering at the booths this week.

Of course I never want to eat another corn dog as long as a live, but hey. Corn dogs aren't exactly good for me anyway.

Thinking over the last two years, I've realized just how many wonderful friendships I have made. There is a part of me that feels like putting myself out there and volunteering was the impetus for a lot of those friendships. For someone as shy as me, that is an important lesson to learn.

The Red River Revel is a wonderful local event. I'm grateful to have had a small part in it. And I'm thankful that our school ahas had another successful fund raiser under the direction of some truly fabulous people.