Volunteering- Post 2

• The next Saturday was the 4th of October and I went to the campaign office this day also to volunteer as a canvasser.However they first assigned me to be the guy handing out packets to other volunteer canvassers. This was a much different experience as I spent about an hour talking to all kinds of people, trying to get them a packet nearest to their residences. We also had to check them off a list and write down their phone numbers and districts. After the hour was up it was our turn to go out and canvass.
  
• This time we got a good packet of about 50 houses with around 65 or so people. We were going to be going to a neighborhood in Reston this time so we had to drive a good 15 minutes to get to the right street. We then stopped and got all of our papers together. It was around 10:30 by the time we got there and my friend and I decided to go out and canvass cooperatively around the neighborhood. The actual canvassing took about 3 hours to complete and I was pretty hungry by then so we decided to just quit on the last couple houses. Out of all the houses there were, again, not too many people to actually answer the door as we got about 15 people to open their doors to talk to us. The others were either not home or just decided to ignore us. We only got one rude person who got really pissed off at us asking his opinion on the election. So once we were done, we again counted up the checks and turned our packet in, each heading back to our own houses.