Okay, so today we had our first kinda mini service day. and yes.......it was totally rad! We started off with the amazing 6 am wake up where I then proceeded to drag my butt over to the cafeteria to get my last catered breakfast.....I also downed like 3 cups of coffee. (if you can call if that.It taste more like brown water:(
After that we loaded ourselves into the glorious government property van ( which totally sat all 13 of us) and headed off to some elementary school. Once there we learned that we would be helping dig/fill a nature trail that is running through that "wetlands" in the school play yard. There was always a class from the school out there "helping" and I LOVE how eager they all were. Everywhere I turned there was a little kid wanting to help out. Its been too long since I've seen kids actually want to work. They even sang us a welcome/thank you song when we first arrived! CUTEST THING EVER!!!
After spending about 6 hours loading wheel-barrows and hauling them over un-even ground we were finally done. The trail looks AMAZING and it was so much fun. I learned that I actually really LOVE my team mates ( and its sucks that the teams are re-arranging soon) and I cant wait to get out there onto a SPIKE and do some more service.
NEVER BEFORE HAVE I EVER BEEN SO HAPPY TO TAKE MY SHOES OFF AND HAVE A SHOWER! It was hot, and humid, and we ALL got dirty. But it was totally worth it.
After that we loaded ourselves into the glorious government property van ( which totally sat all 13 of us) and headed off to some elementary school. Once there we learned that we would be helping dig/fill a nature trail that is running through that "wetlands" in the school play yard. There was always a class from the school out there "helping" and I LOVE how eager they all were. Everywhere I turned there was a little kid wanting to help out. Its been too long since I've seen kids actually want to work. They even sang us a welcome/thank you song when we first arrived! CUTEST THING EVER!!!
After spending about 6 hours loading wheel-barrows and hauling them over un-even ground we were finally done. The trail looks AMAZING and it was so much fun. I learned that I actually really LOVE my team mates ( and its sucks that the teams are re-arranging soon) and I cant wait to get out there onto a SPIKE and do some more service.
NEVER BEFORE HAVE I EVER BEEN SO HAPPY TO TAKE MY SHOES OFF AND HAVE A SHOWER! It was hot, and humid, and we ALL got dirty. But it was totally worth it.
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