Wednesday

Today Crew 7 headed over to Porch Light, an organization that provides low-income housing to families. Our job was to clean out recently vacant apartments for new families to move in to. We quickly scanned the two apartments we were assigned to clean, split into teams and got to work. First, we had to throw out all the furniture and odds and ends still there, where we discovered some interesting at best items. Second, after our lunch break, we dug into the deep cleaning which consisted mostly of scrubbing walls and sweeping the floors, which we did for the rest of the day. This experience really allowed us the opportunity to work together as a team and show our strong work ethic as a group. No one complained, and everyone was willing to do their part, and it felt like we made a huge dent in the workload for the organization, while getting a new perspective on a different environment than the ones we are used to.

-Lauren Koch

As we have the past two days, Crew 2 headed over to Glacier Edge Elementary bright and earl(ier than everyone else) at 7:45am. We did our morning devotions in the car (Mandy and I are the Devo Masters, so we led). At approximately 8:17am, we headed out to our classrooms for an 8:30 start. There was a Books on Bikes program where every kid got to look through 10 boxes full of books and pick their own to take home. Now that we've seen the kids for 2 (now 3) days, they are even more comfortable and smiley around us (they're the cutest:))))). We helped our teachers through reading and math. I personally made some breakthroughs with my kids; teaching them is such a learning experience for me, and finally getting the point across and seeing them smile is SO REWARDING. We are all going to miss the kids so much, and it's hard to grasp that tomorrow is the last day we will ever see them and our teachers. At the end of our morning together, we headed over to the Fitchburg Library for our first day without Liz the Librarian (we were left to lead the activities in the park on our own, without the regular volunteers). We were really excited to take on the responsibility!! Unfortunately, it was a pretty slow day, so not many kids came. However, we made the most of it, further bonding with each other and hanging out with the few kids that did come. We colored, played some soccer and Duck Duck Animal, and made stuff with Play-Doh. We topped off the work day with some Dairy Queen, making it an overall relaxing and pleasing day.

- Sam Bourgeois