Hey. We made it to Philly. Yay. The first 2 days we worked
in a garden. I didn’t pace myself well the first day so I felt like throwing up
but hey, pain is gain. Today we worked with children. Our job was to tutor the children
because they are way behind in school. Oh Boy I had to work with the kindergarteners.
WE had to help them count and write letters. I thought it would be fairly easy.
NO I was very wrong! One girl started to count 1..2..3..7..20..100. It was very
frustrating. When I tried to help them they said they could do it all by themselves
and then started to count wrong again. I had to crack the whip on some of the
children a couple of times. We tutored them for 3 hours and then it was song
and reading time. I passed out on the chair while Mattheus read a very boring
book about gorillas. You should have seen me. I had my mouth wide open. Then it
was play time. I tried to Double Dutch which didn’t turn out to be amazing. One
little girl asked me if I was African which was a first. When we were done working for the day we went
to see the Liberty Bell and The Independent Hall. I also got a Philly Cheesesteak. I ended up giving
half of my Philly Cheesesteak to a Hobo because I knew I couldn’t eat it
all. In return he taught me how to
correctly hitch-hike.
We had a very interesting dinner. We had to sit in assigned
seats. I ended up sitting with Lauren, Isaac, Evan, Brady, and Troy. I ended up
asking lots of questions about God , Jesus and His angels which led around to
the book series The Immortal Instruments which is all about Angels and their
children. I’m sorry if anything is spelled wrong or the grammar is wrong. Its almost
11 at night and I’m really tired. –Emily
So far all I have really done is kill plants. Severe weeding
day one and day two and on day three we cleaned out plants that were too far
into season to be beneficial. I wish I could do a little more work in the
actual community but honestly the gardening has been very relaxing, minus the
heat. Tonight we went to probably the most amazing church service I’ve ever
been to! The passion and the energy the people had was amazing to see. I don’t think
I could ever forget that if I even tried. The feeling of God all around us was
almost surreal. The pastor had such a good message! The time scramble is pretty
tight and lights out is in exactly 5 mins. Philly is great city and I’ve had
such a great time!
See y’all. –Adam
Today I handled 10,000 pounds of food! WOW! Divided it was about
7,100 pounds of donated foods, 1,600 pounds of moldy grapes, which we
composted, and the rest was cabbage. When handling the various donated foods we
were checking expiration dates, that was kind of hard being that they were so
tiny. The grapes had to be dumped out of their packing and then dumped into the
smelly compost pile, it was very ripe. I had to shovel one load into the compost
pile, and it was very scary… Especially since I almost fell into the pile, one
of my feet slipped and it was very scary… the cabbage had to be peeled in the
forty degree freezer… I was thankful that I brought pants and a sweatshirt. One
of the best parts of my day was showering, I kind of smelled like cabbage and
moldy grapes. We ended the day with a church service at the nearby Baptist church.
They did things very different than us there; they were very vocal throughout
the service. It was nice to see a different type of service than our own. It is
late, goodnight! See you all Saturday! -Rachel
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