Hello all! I have some good news, I have found a quick internet connection which means more pictures on the blog and I will be uploading my photos to my snapfish account and will have give you all that link. Don’t get yourselves all excited…it may take a few days…I am lazy and a busy girl.
Yesterday we had our second service project. We spent 8 hours at the boys and girls club. I cannot even begin to explain to you all how shocked I was with this place. It was a 5 star boys and girls club. It is huge, a nice building, big cafeteria, good gym, large game room, library, teen room, computer room, art room, and rooms for each age group. It also has its own soccer field…but no playground L. I’m sure you can all guess that that bothered me a bit…but oh well, they have so much more than any boys and girls club I have ever seen.
We spent the first half of our day doing maintenancey stuff around for them, however, I don’t think they knew how awesome the Blue Anacondas (formerly known as Blue 3) are. We finished up that stuff fairly quickly and had some downtime before the kiddies arrived. So, we ate our lunch and then played games! When the kids arrived we did power hour with them (homework time) and then played with them. It was a tiring day for sure, but also very fun. As many of you know, working at the boys and girls club is always a good time. The kids love having you around and don’t want you to leave.
The highlight of my day: I learned how to play bumper pool, a 7 year old was my fantastic teacher and kicked my butt just about every time (I won once).
Since that is all I have to say I thought I would throw another little part in to this entry. I’m sure many of you are interested in what a normal day in the life of Emily is right now.
We are still in training and will be until we get inducted on Nov. 20 or 21. So our day goes like this:
5:30 AM PT
6:30 – 7:45 AM Breakfast
8:00-8:30 AM Check-in (we go with another group and have announcements basically)
8:30-12:00PM Trainings (trainings are stuff like tools, redcross, healthy lifestyles, conflict resolution, projects, etc.).
12:00-1:00 PM LUNCH! J
1:00-4:30/5 PM more trainings
Then we are free for the rest of the night…we take turns w/ 3 other teams making dinner…which is around 6 or 6:30. Thursday is our night this week, we are making chicken, veggie, pesto tortellini.
Also the trainings are not exactly that entertaining so we tend to write stories, draw pictures, and play hangman. Goodtimes.
For those of you who are just dying to know something that I have yet to write about, let me know. I will write about it next time.
Woooo goodbye
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I want to know if everyone is obeying the rules, and rebels in the group.
And isn't lazy and busy an oximorone
How can a boys and girls club not have swings? also how do you wake up so early? Do you have a 6 pack yet? everything sounds like its going very well overall! keep the stories coming.
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