On Saturday August 25th The Jr. YBA was invited to do a service project at the Arizona Memorial ( I think it's actually called Valley of the Pacific now?!?) The service project was to teach visitors how to fold origami paper cranes. The Center is trying to change its image from focusing on war to focusing on what happened and how we move to forgiveness and peace. We were also told that people often leave paper cranes at the Arizona Memorial in honor of people.
We had the nicest park ranger help out on this project. She was enthusiastic and really friendly. She even had got some paper crane earrings from the Made in Hawaii Festival from the week before. We taught people to fold paper cranes from 1-3p.m. that day and even though it did not seem that a lot of people came through we taught quite a few people to fold paper cranes including some of the employees that worked at the Center.
This project was really fun and the room where we were teaching people to fold paper cranes was really spacious and had a nice view of the harbor. Hopefully we'll have the opportunity to do this again in the future.
Folding paper cranes and catching up with each other :)
Teaching people to fold paper cranes. Everyone who folded paper cranes that day had the option to keep the paper cranes they had as a memory of their visit.
Paper cranes all mingling together
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