St. Vincent De Paul experience by Paul

I didn't know what to do for this service project at the start and thought that I would have a hard time finding one to do that involved a Christian community and one that would be flexible with my actual job. It turned out that Dustin would mention the idea about working at St. Vincent De Paul and when I called St. Vincent De Paul up, I found out that their schedule was very flexible. Later, Aaron asked if he could join us too, so there was three of us on this first day.
When I first got there I didn't know what to expect. I usually frequent both St. Vincent De Paul and Goodwill to search for things I like to collect, but had really never known how the store ran in the background. We walked into the back room and I found it to be surprisingly large. There were two big shop floor rooms with items organized into categories. The first room had an electronic area, a child toy area, a bed parts area and a clothing area with a big compactor that was used to compress unwanted clothing. The second room had an office for one of our supervisors, tables, computer electronics, other random furniture, and a truck loading dock.
I was surprised that when we first walked into the place, a guy that I think was named 'Tom' asked us if we were there by court order. I actually laughed in response and he told us that a lot of the help that they get there is court ordered. We started off the day by taking a table out onto the display floor in the St. Vincent Store, and then proceeded to dust all of the furniture that was in the second room. Dusting the furniture didn't seem to take us that long. Our second task was to sweep the two shop room floors. We took a while to do this, and while I was still doing it, our supervisor gave Dustin the task of breaking down boxes and Aaron the task of sorting bed parts. Eventually we all helped Aaron sort out the bed parts because this was the longest job. We then moved all the bed parts that didn't match to a place where they would be picked up and taken to the dump.
Another supervisor at the store room asked us what our majors were at Clarke and when he asked me, I told him that I was a CS major and that I dealt with computers. When he heard that, he told me that he wanted me to fix a computer problem for him. I then told him to ask Dustin instead because Dustin is better at normal computer problems and I don't like to fix computer issues. Dustin helped him with his computer while I watched what he was doing and Aaron talked to the computers owner. Dustin seemed to fix all the computer issues so the guy bought us lunch.
After that, we did a little more furniture set up on the show room and went home.
I think that this was a good experience. It somehow reminded me of what it is like to work at a grocery store, where I stock things on the shelf on the display floor. I thought that everyone there was easy to deal with, we didn't run into any bad situations from my experience. The only bad thing about this deal is that I didn't get paid for my work, which is why it's called community service...