March and April Update

March has been great for our group. In total, we signed up for around 10-12 (twice a week) bread runs and came out with 6 successful ones as well as another successful one in the first week of April. Turns out, the secret to successful bread runs is signing up right away after the bread run stores are available for scheduling. So in short, we pretty much did a year's worth of bread runs in a month, and it turned out quite well. Of course some problems existed. We'd all get home past 10 or 11, meaning we'd have some extra stress for homework, and bread run shops were nearly an hour away from where Ricky and Rex lived. But we persisted and all the trips went smoothly.

February Update #2

Success! We finally got a successful bread run and were able to deliver it to the drop off point. Unfortunately though, the shop only had 1 piece of bread... not our fault though, but it was quite disappointing and all we can do is hope that in the future we can take more amounts. Of course, this will probably happen since I believe that our group has about 6 bread runs coming up in March, about 2 per week.

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2nd January Post

Unfortunately, the bread run that we were supposed to do today didn't go through because once again, the store sold out. This is starting to get very annoying and feels as if we'll barely go on any bread runs no matter how many we sign up for. Though I'm very certain we will do a few next month considering I signed us up for 5 bread runs (Which means we've signed up for a total of 9 already). Nevertheless, I've figured out several solutions to this problem.

1. Sign up for official bread run volunteering with FeedingHK, meaning we will do it on a weekly basis depending on what the charity gives, which would mean we can't independently sign up but we'll be guaranteed bread runs.

Or

2. Sign up for bread runs really early. I figured out that most of the shops near the drop off at Yau Tong don't really sell out, meaning if we sign up earlier and take those shops for the bread run, we'll both get bread and have a more convenient shop to go to that's close to the drop off.

At this point, I'm probably going to go with #2 since it's more manageable, but if things get really bad I might go for #1.

January Post

In order to fight the problem of stores selling out of bread, I just decided to schedule A LOT of bread runs per month. So for the next month of February, we will be having 1 bread run every week save for Chinese New Year week. I also have one tomorrow night. If these all go to plan, I'll probably tone down the number per month to 2 or 3, but for now I think we can manage well.