User blog:Jpallan/The end of the Haïti event.

As of today, 6 October, 2010, I noticed that School Supply may no longer be gifted and thus I suspect that the main part of the event is over. There are still farmers with Sweet Beets in their fields and presumably they will be allowed to harvest them.

I found it interesting that while the Haïtian Hot Air Balloon was able to be stored, the Haïtian backpack was not, which seems to me to be a bit of a pity, since many Farmville players put many gifts — gifts that might otherwise have been shovels, vehicle parts, nails, bricks, boards, smokers, bees' wax, honey bees, harnesses, horseshoes, baby blankets, nursing bottles or collectibles. While it was not in any way the effort that actual relief efforts are, pixels being simply pixels, it was an effort, however small, for the betterment of humanity in a time of crisis.

It would have been nice to hold on to the backpack, though. I felt it symbolised the effort far more than the Haïtian hot air balloon, which was arbitrarily awarded. Jpallan 15:02, October 6, 2010 (UTC)