August
27, 2010
I
want to try something: “RAK Fridays.” Starting today, I am going to try and
post an example of a Random Act of Kindness with the hope it inspires others to
do it or something like it. My guess is that, initially at least, most of these
ideas (like this first one) will come from www.actsofkindness.org. Please let me know if you do this, morph it
into something else, or come up with one of your own.
Kindness on an Amsterdam Tram
Submitted by Elena, Amsterdam
I just read in your newsletter that
Europe is “far away.” This e-mail
brings you a little news on faraway
kindness.
These pictures are from a party I
threw, in which my friends got a
secret assignment in small groups.
The assignment was to decorate
a bus, tram, or subway car in style
of choice. One group did some
undercover theatre; another hung
streamers on the back of a tram so
they went flying in the wind as the
tram accelerated.
The group I was in bought about 15
packets of balloons and asked
the people in a subway car to help
blow them up -- which they did!
Then we hung them up using sticky
tape.
It was a funny sight because we
didn’t stop when the car was decorated
in a normal way. We went on until
it was absurdly crammed
with balloons.
—Groetjes from Elena in Amsterdam
