Hey everyone! Sorry for the late message - my internet hasn't been working properly lately, so I couldn't go online to post to our blog.

Here is our final volunteers list for this Sunday's SF AIDS Foundation Holiday Wrapping Party:

1. Lily Guan 0811
2. Irene Cheung 0817
3. Katie Yee 0817
4. Tiffany Vu
5. Regina Lam 0701
6. ChristineTrinh 0804
7. Aimee Howard 0812
8. Nora Casey 0815
9. Serena Luong 0810
10. Sirena Louie 1004
11. Natasha Sadkin 1016
12. Linda Tsang 0716
13. Danna Hong 0913
14. Judy Cheng 0906
15. Yvonne Kong 0819

If your name is on the list and you won't be able to make it, please email me by no later than Friday, December 1 at 8:00 pm.

Attached is a message from the volunteers director at the SF AIDS foundation with all the details for this event:

Thank you so much for volunteering to sort and wrap the gifts for the women and family holiday party this Sunday December 3rd from 9am to 1pm. As you may know, the gifts that we donate, collect and wrap represent the only gifts that many of these people will receive this year so it is wonderful that you are volunteering to help with this event.

We will be meeting in the large Conference Room on the 2nd Floor of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF). (995 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. There will be a security guard at the front door to let you in. He may have you sign in. Take the elevator to the 2nd Floor. Go to your left when you exit the elevator towards the open door and the hallway. Go all the way to the end and you will be in the Conference Room. Rest assured there will most likely be plenty of noise/laughing/talking to lead you there! )

Public Transportation is the easiest way to get there as we are at the corner of 6th and Market, one block from the Powell Street BART and underground MUNI station. (Yes right near ALL the Union Square shopping and the New Bloomingdales Mall shoppers!!!) There is one hour metered street parking and there are parking lots but on Golden Gate Ave. I am not sure about the cost of the parking on weekends but on weekdays if you get in before 9:30 AM they are $7 until 5pm. I would suggest checking beforehand as parking at some lots can run upwards of $37 during the holiday season downtown.

Our activities will include unpacking the gifts from all the storage corners and closets around the Foundation sorting gifts to make sure that all the client’s gifts are equivalent i.e. a scarf and a hat are about the same as a blanket.
Engage parents/teachers to get a better idea of what toys are appropriate for whom/ages etc. and to create toyequivalencess (particularly tricky!) Getting the wrapping supplies ready and handy for all. We may have some facilitators doing this.

Then we will be wrapping the gifts and labeling them for their distribution at the Women and Family Holiday Party on Thursday Dec. 14th. Once we are all on-site I will explain the process more fully and we will break up the duties so that we utilize the specialties of various volunteers!

Dress is casual and comfortable but I suggest pants and closed toe shoes as these items tend to lend themselves to the easiest and safest movement.

There will be coffee and snacks but not lunch as we will be done by 1 PM. If you require a larger or a specialized meal please bring that with you.

Please be prompt, as we will be explaining the process at 9am.

That pretty much covers everything you need to know about the event! MAD volunteers should try their best to arrive at the SF AIDS Foundation headquarters by no later than 8:45 am to allow for time to sign in with officers and to receive any additional instructions.

If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact me and I'll try my best to give you an answer!

A final-final volunteers list (taking any drops/bumps from the waiting list into account) will be sent out via email on Saturday afternoon, so please be sure to check your email sometime on Saturday to get the latest updates.

Thanks again for being awesome volunteers!

Hey MAD Clubbers, I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving break! Our next MAD meeting will be tomorrow afterschool in room 259.

If you participated in our Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF 2006 campaign and have not turned in your orange collection box yet, please be sure to bring your box to the meeting! Remember, $20 = 1 credit, and any additional credits over the required eight (8) for the Fall semester will be rolled over to meet Spring semester requirements. Here's your chance to rack up some easy credits and truly make a difference around the world, so don't miss out! Even if you didn't manage to collect $20 in your box, please turn in any collections you did receive because every penny counts.

You do not have to count the money inside your boxes yourself - we will be counting the money in the weeks to come and a list of all participants with the number of credits they received will be posted on our blog sometime before Winter Break.

See you all at our meeting tomorrow!

Hey everyone, there will be NO MAD MEETING afterschool on Wednesday, November 15th. Spend the extra time studying for all your end of the grading period exams!

Our next meeting will be after Thanksgiving, on Wednesday, November 29th. Just as a quick reminder, UNICEF boxes are due on the 29th, so please remember to bring them to the next meeting.

Just one more week until Thanksgiving break (yay, five-day weekend)! :)

Hello MAD Clubbers! Since we don't have any upcoming events for you volunteers to sign up for, there will be NO MEETING THIS WEDNESDAY. Take the time to catch up on your work before the semester ends or to enjoy the last rays of sunshine before winter sets in!

Check your emails often, and I'll keep you all updated with any new news about our winter events.

Have a Happy MAD-free Wednesday, everyone! :D

Hey MAD Clubbers! Thanks for emailing in your sign ups so quickly for the SF AIDS Foundation Wrapping Parties in November! We'll try our best to bring as many interested volunteers as possible, but for the time being, we have to set the maximum at fifteen volunteers per event. The volunteers lists (plus waiting lists) for both events is listed below:

SF AIDS Foundation: December 3rd Wrapping Party
1. Lily Guan 0811
2. Irene Cheung 0817
3. Katie Yee 0817
4. Tiffany Vu
5. Regina Lam 0701
6. ChristineTrinh 0804
7. Aimee Howard 0812
8. Nora Casey 0815
9. Serena Luong 0810
10. Sirena Louie 1004
11. Natasha Sadkin 1016
12. Linda Tsang 0716
13. Danna Hong 0913
14. Judy Cheng 0906
15. Allison Nguyen 0801

Waiting List
16. Michele Chui 0818
17.. Annie Wong 0805
18.. Stephanie Yee 0817
19.. Teresa Zhou 1012
20. Serene Ho 0911
21. Susan Lim 1019
22. Jan Young 0911
23. Odalis Lourdes Mandereau 1015
24. Elaine Situ 0805
25. Jonathan Kyi 0707


SF AIDS Foundation: December 9th Wrapping Party
1. Angel Huang 0917
2. Sandy Diao 0906
3. Wing Cheuk 0820
4. Wendy Kwan 0914
5. Jenny Fong 0907
6. Emily Kuang 0814
7. Anna Chen 0904
8. Annie Yan 0913
9. Emily Wang 0909
10. Victoria Liu 0820 (?)
11. Johnny Zhou Chen 1013
12. Frances Yan 0911
13. Serene Ho 0911
14. Justine Pon 0910
15. Jenelle Guillermo 0916

Waiting List
16. Melissa Sylvester 0920
17. Salina Wong 0815
18. Shirla Shan 0902
19. Amy Lai 0918
20. Stephanie Tong 0908
21. Lily Wong 0909
22. Elaine Situ 0805

I'll have more details about both events for you when we get closer to the dates in December - thanks in advance for volunteering!

Hello there! The final volunteers list for the Treasure Island Triathlon (tomorrow!) is attached below:

Justin Chan 0801
Jason Jee 0802
Yvonne Kong 0819
Emily Kuang 0814
Odalis Lourdes Mandereau 1015
Carol Mamon 0916
Nora Casey 0815
Aimee Howard 0812
Lisa Wong 1016

Please remember to bring a signed waiver (you can download them here) with you to the Volunteers Tent to sign in between 8:30AM and 8:45AM tomorrow.

Dress in layers because it can be kind of chilly on Treasure Island!

I hope you all have a great time helping out at the Finish Line Food tent tomorrow. :) If you have any questions on Race Day, please direct them to our VP, Raymond - 415-823-1214.

Thanks again for volunteering!

Hey everyone! The following people were bumped from the waiting list onto the official volunteers list for the US Half Marathon:

Diana Liem
Lily Guan
Paula Fon
Linda Tsang

If any of you gals can't make it to the marathon due to the short notice, please contact me ASAP and you will not be penalized for it. However, all other volunteers on the official volunteers list will be penalized for not showing up because you all knew what you were getting into further in advance.

Please keep in mind that if you sign up for a MAD event and need to cancel for whatever reason, you must contact us at least one week in advance or risk receiving negative credits for that event. We will totally understand if you cannot volunteer due to some dire emergency and will adjust our policies accordingly, so please don't hesitate to contact us with any concerns!

Here's the final volunteers list for the US Half Marathon:

1. Eva Luo 0909
2. Connie Tran 0905
3. Carol Liang
4. Sirena Louie
5. Anne Yan
6. Amy Yan 1003
7. Kelly Tam
8. Susan Lim 1019
9. Wendy Chak 1019
10. Diana Liem 0903
11. Latisha Chan 0902
12. Wendy Kwan 0914
13. Stephanie Tong 0908
14. Wing Cheuk 0820
15. Teresa Zhou 1012
16. Daisy Mah 0903
17. Jeremy Mah 1009
18. Viktoriya Figlina 0905
19. Judy Cheng 0906
20. Danna Hong 0913
21. Calvin Chin 1006
22. Telly Cheung
23. Tina Liu 0914
24. Karen Chen 0914
25. Lily Wong 0919
26. Emily Wang 0909
27. Jenny Fong 0907
28. Natsha Sadikin 1016
29. Mindy Hyunh 1011
30. Jonathan Siu 1013
31. Aileen Luo 1010
32. Jenny Huynh 1010
33. Lily Guan 0811
34. Diana Chan 1006
35. Jason Jee 0802
36. Allison Nguyen 0801
37. Paula Fon 0914
38. Elaine Situ 0805
39. Vickie Chung
40. Linda Tsang 0716

If anybody has any questions, please feel free to contact me via email or call me on my cell.

Thanks again for being great volunteers!

Now that you're all done reading about the US Half Marathon, here's another long one with the details for our other big event this weekend, the Treasure Island Triathlon!

MAD will be volunteering at the 2006 Treasure Island Triathlon at the Finish Line Food tent from 9AM to 3PM on Saturday, November 4th.

Here's the semi-final volunteers list for the triathlon:

Justin Chan 0801
Jason Jee 0802
Yvonne Kong 0819
Emily Kuang 0814
Priscilla Yip 1016
Odalis Lourdes Mandereau 1015
Carol Mamon 0916
Nora Casey 0815
Aimee Howard 0812

If you emailed me to sign up but do not see your name on the list, please email me again! I've been getting a lot of emails lately, and if you didn't put the correct subject line in your email, I may have missed it when I was sorting through my messages. It is very important to always include the correct subject line when you email us to sign up because it makes it a lot easier for us to organize all the replies we get!

Anybody interested in volunteering for this event can still sign up by email, as long as I receive volunteer requests by no later than 8PM on Friday, November 3rd (tomorrow). Send an email to makeadifferenceclub@gmail.com with "TREASURE ISLAND TRIATHLON 2006" in the subject line and be sure to include your name and reg in the body of the message.

Please download and print a volunteer waiver here (named "TREASURE ISLAND TRIATHLON 2006 - WAIVER"), and give the completed/signed waiver to Raymond when you sign in on Saturday. Volunteers only need to fill the top part of the waiver (personal information like name, email address, phone number, etc) and get a parent or guardian's signature - please ignore the two columns on the bottom half of the waiver.

A map (pdf) of how everything will be set up on Treasure Island on Race Day is also available for download in our MAD BOX.

Volunteers must meet at the Volunteer Tent (you can find it on the PDF map of the island) on Treasure Island between 8:30AM and 8:45AM to sign in, grab a t-shirt and some breakfast before getting together for a short orientation about your specific duties at the Finish Line Food tent.

I won't be at this event (another SAT Saturday), so please direct all questions on Race Day to our awesome VP, Raymond. He'll be one of the only officers present at this event, so please cooperate with him to the best of your abilities and don't give him a hard time!

Please email me with any questions, and look for a final email in your inbox tomorrow evening with the final volunteers list and any last minute details I may have forgotten to include in this email.

Thanks in advance for volunteering!

Hey everyone, thanks for the quick email responses regarding the details for our two upcoming weekend events. I know it can get kind of complicated trying to organize stuff through email sometimes, so I really appreciate your cooperation!

As you all probably know already, MAD will be volunteering at the US Half Marathon this Sunday from 6AM to 11AM. A semi-formal volunteers list is included below.

Diana Liem, Paula Fon, and Linda Tsang got bumped up to the volunteers list from the waiting list, so if any of you three don't want to volunteer at the US Half Marathon, please let me now ASAP (and I mean it when I say "as soon as possible") so we can give the other people on the waiting list a chance to volunteer at this event. I will send out another volunteers list tomorrow night, and that list will be considered FINAL. That means if your name is on the list but you don't show up on Sunday, you will get negative five credits. The end of the semester is nearing and there won't be as many opportunities for you to make up negative credits, so don't let this happen to you, and e-mail me NOW if you know something will come up preventing you from volunteering this Sunday.

And here we go with all the semi-formal listy goodness:

1. Eva Luo 0909
2. Connie Tran 0905
3. Carol Liang
4. Sirena Louie
5. Anne Yan
6. Amy Yan 1003
7. Kelly Tam
8. Susan Lim 1019
9. Wendy Chak 1019
10. Diana Liem 0903
11. Latisha Chan 0902
12. Wendy Kwan 0914
13. Stephanie Tong 0908
14. Wing Cheuk 0820
15. Teresa Zhou 1012
16. Daisy Mah 0903
17. Jeremy Mah 1009
18. Viktoriya Figlina 0905
19. Judy Cheng 0906
20. Danna Hong 0913
21. Calvin Chin 1006
22. Telly Cheung
23. Tina Liu 0914
24. Karen Chen 0914
25. Lily Wong 0919
26. Emily Wang 0909
27. Jenny Fong 0907
28. Natsha Sadikin 1016
29. Mindy Hyunh 1011
30. Jonathan Siu 1013
31. Aileen Luo 1010
32. Jenny Huynh 1010
33. Shyana Sadiq 0807
34. Diana Chan 1016
35. Jason Jee 0802
36. Allison Nguyen 0801
37. Paula Fon 0914
38. Elaine Situ 0805
39. Vickie Chung
40. Linda Tsang 0716

People who are still on our waiting list:
Lily Guan 0811
Irene Cheung 0807
Tiffany Vu 0816
Annie Wong 0805
Victoria Wong 0803
Janet Lee 0903
Angela Lau
Christine Trinh 0804
Michele Chui 0818

I want to especially thank all the volunteers on the US Half Marathon waiting list who decided to sign up for the Treasure Island Triathlon instead - I really appreciate your flexibility!

If any of you wonderful MAD Clubbers are still interested in volunteering at the Treasure Island triathlon, it's not too late - send me an e-mail with your name and reg by 8:00 PM on Friday, November 3rd, and I'll put you on the list.

Here are the details about race day for the US Half Marathon:

All volunteers must arrive at Jefferson and Hyde (Aquatic Park) between 5:45 AM and 6 AM (no tardies!) to sign in with a MAD officer at the big, white Volunteers/Medical tent.

Meet at the green arrow.

You can see a bigger version of the map and get directions from Google Maps here.

After you sign in, you will receive a t-shirt, a goodie bag (yay), and your specific assignment for the day. For the most part, our club will be stationed at the finish line festival as "course marshals" on Marina Blvd and at mile 3 & 5 water stations. It should be lots of fun!

Like always, if you have any questions, feel free to email me or call me up on my cell on race day (415-830-2371) and I'll try my best to help you.

Thanks again for volunteering, everyone!

Hey there MAD Clubbers! Our first December event will be the "Holiday Gift Wrapping Party" with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation on Sunday, December 3rd from 9AM to 1PM. This event will be worth four (4) credits. The semester is coming to an end quickly, so be sure to sign up for our December events if you're still missing credits!

Volunteer duties involve sorting and wrapping tons of cool gifts donated to charity in preparation for the holiday season at the SF AIDS headquarters located at 995 Market Street (by 6th Street).

We can only take the first 15 volunteers for the December 3rd wrapping party, so be sure to e-mail me soon if you're interested in helping out! Send an e-mail with your name and reg to makeadifferenceclub@gmail.com with "DECEMBER 3RD WRAPPING PARTY" in the subject line.

There will be another Holiday Wrapping Party on Saturday, December 9th, so don't despair if you don't reply in time to get on the volunteers list for December 3rd. To sign up directly for the December 9th wrapping party, send an e-mail to makeadifferenceclub@gmail.com with "DECEMBER 9TH WRAPPING PARTY" in the subject line.

We will probably have one more event in early January (it's still tentative at the moment) before the end of the semester, so please be aware of your current credits status. Remember, $20 = 1 credit for the Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF campaign (boxes are due on the last Wednesday of November), so if you're short on credits, talk to more people and try to get those donations!