Lafayette Urban Ministry

Do you know what LUM is? It's the Lafayette Urban Ministry, a homeless shelter in downtown Lafayette. It has been around for a while, except that I just noticed it. After a one-year period of.. wanting to volunteer regularly (but failed due to not having enough time :p).. I finally put my heart in there.

The experience..
It is a kinda different volunteer work, I'd say, that people do there. Everyday.. 3-4 kind volunteers get themselves busy from 8 PM to 7 AM the next day. Yeah, they stay overnite :). My first nite went very well actually. I helped with check-ins and check-out. Nothing too complicated, just say "Hi", keep people's stuffs in the lockers, and jackets on the hangers. Oh, we had to take down their information, too, assign bedroom, and all those logistics.
I'm so blessed to have such friendly volunteer friends there. They made me more than comfortable. The coordinator was even ce Vivi's (my housemate) fellow friend in the Chemical Eng department. He is such a nice and moderate guy :). Plus, I did not have to do my 2-hour nite shift, cause someone chose to do that for all of us - the volunteers. The next morning, having to wake up at 5:50 AM was surely not a nice thing :(. I felt.. sick. But yah, after another hour of checking-out people.. it was a peaceful and satisfied heart driving home.. and 2-hour napping.. :p