I started my day by getting up at 515 am. Granted it's a Sunday and I'm a college student so believe it or not that was hell. But the reason for me getting up so early after only having about 4 hours of sleep was to be a volunteer at the Get your Rear in Gear run. I struggled to get up this morning and after getting dressed and facing the pain of putting my contacts in, I walked in the dark and in the cold to meet a group of friends that were also going. We all were having a rough morning to say the least.
We had finally arrived at the best place on earth, the Please Touch Museum in Philly, around 6 then went and stood outside in a volunteer line that was incredibly long for about 45 minutes and trust me within the first 45 seconds of standing in that line, we all realized that we were going to freeze and this made us more miserable. Luckily enough we didn't freeze and we made it through the line pretty quickly and were all placed at different volunteer spots. We complained about the cold and being tired, one girl only had a half hour of sleep God bless her soul, but at the end of the day it was so much fun and the whole experience made us so much closer.
The Get Your Rear in Gear run is to benefit colon cancer and this was its 6th year. I have to tell you, all of the people there are so incredibly energetic and friendly and everybody including the hundreds of survivors had such uplifting attitudes. I have done a lot of volunteer work this year and just from doing it, I have found that I absolutely love doing it and that waking up at early hours and freezing my butt off is actually worth it. To see people get so excited to be apart of something that means something to them is amazing. To see people unite under one cause is even better. I have done this run, the pancreatic cancer run, and the out of the darkness run and each one has been amazing. People are amazing and to see them support friends and family through tough times really touches your heart. Everyone at this run this morning was freezing, but everyone was happy. People were dancing, laughing, playing with dogs and kids, but overall they were having a great time and to see the happiness on someone's face at an event like this make's it all worth while.