The Inauguration Chronicles::

THE SIMON ELEMENTARY && OPRAH

-Day 2 Event 1

We awoke bright and early the next morning in anticipation of going to the Simon Elementary School service project. The service project was put on by MTV and ServiceNation. In the service project we teamed up with sponsors such as Target and CityYear to help paint hallways and create two new libraries for the children of Simon Elementary. These children were deprived of a library and due to this fact, the literacy rate was down to 15% creating a future drop out rate of 50% or higher. It was a beautiful thing to see the hundreds of volunteers milling around and in and out the different rooms and organizing books for the newly constructed shelves. Me and Supa tackled the Biographies while Plie and Dewey took on the never-ending pile of autobiographies. While we were helping with books and organization, Oprah did a live broadcast and featured the service project on the show. We were all excited about being part of a project that was so important Oprah felt it was worthy of her attention. Not only did Usher stop by to get involved, but Allen Rossum, Tobey Maguire (Spiderman), and Brandon Routh (Superman) also came by to show support and provide some hands on help. We left the service project and got a chance to do some interviewing of the People Magazine Editor AnneMarie Cruz. She gave us tips for picking a career and how to move up the ladder. Talk about enlightening!!! THe next stop was the National Mall.

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(We rode in a white stretch 300C and had a few laughs and candid moments, you can see them as well as footage from the service project on the video blog section.)