7/13/17
Wow. What a crazy day. As a rose at 7:15 I had the mindset
that today we be a good easy day. We would go work with T, kill the fences
butt, then have a good hike in the afternoon, and then come back for chapel.
Man was I wrong! The day started off pretty normal, as we jammed to Neil
Diamond and Queen on the way to the worksite. As soon as we got there the
hammers started swinging, we were like a bunch of John Henrys. We were able to
make immense progress on the fence and the only reason we weren’t able to is
because we ran out of pickets to hammer. But with some scrap wood, handyman
future project designer Nathan and couple others built our friend T a flower
box painted in the volunteers colors. We all painted our names on it and it was
a really cool way to close our week. After that though, the day took a crazy
turn. We decided to go for a 3 mile hike in the Smoky Mts., at least we thought
it would be 3 miles. Little did we know it was actually 3 miles one way!!
People started to realize that once we saw the sign, but we couldn’t go back
now. We all decided to hike to this cool little waterfall and the icy water was
very refreshing. Already short on time some of us rushed back the trail trying
to speed up the group pace. Other members of our group decided to take the
wrong turn and get lost, we took even more time! So by the time this whole
ordeal was finished it was about 7:30 and we had an hour drive back to chapel
which started at 8. Now math isn’t my thing, but those two numbers didn’t
really add up, even with Nathan driving we wouldn’t make it in time. So we
arrived at chapel at 9, just in time for the end and then we did this really
cool thing that was great way to end the week. Finally after all of that we
still hadn’t eaten dinner and since it was so late, we got to a fulfill a
lifelong dream of mine which was to eat Waffle House at midnight. What an
incredible way to end a incredible day.
-Jackson Berger
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