it's so awesome when you feel so reinforced by your feelings, they let me know this exactly where i need to be. already my lens on life has been changing, i can feel it. i know it's for good though.
i feel like i already have a deeper meaning to what service is.
it's not glamorous. it's not fun all of the time, but it's good.
a really neat part about this program is that there is a huge emphasis on Service Learning. this ensures that there is no way you can get through a project without taking some of the responsibility on your shoulders. not like a weight to be taken on by yourself, but to be shared with our community.
So we found out our permanent teams Thursday and where we were serving on our first project on Friday............... we are staying here in Denver doing Landscape Learning. It's going to be an incredible project for the first round. It will include working directly with elementary school kids and on their playgrounds doing landscaping. We will be at different schools every week including Columbine (which will be interesting in and of itself) I'm not upset at all about staying here the first round. I mean, what a cool city to be in and what an awesome project to get?
On Saturday we had some team building and went to one of the best parks I've even been to. It's called Washington Park, and there were people everywhere just moving. This is such an active community. This picture is of the little pond in the middle of it.
We took an (almost) team picture at the park.We were missing one guy, Mike.
I'll just name off my team from this picture starting from the left top of the branch
Emily, Steven, Gordy, Amanda, Yasi, Meghan, Tana, Me, Julia, Dequan, Sarah, Melissa, and my awesome team leader- Lauren.
So we have a full team of 13 people not including the TL. The 15 passenger van trips will be interesting : ]
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unday me and some friends went to volunteer at a Children's Museum.It was one of those places that you know you would have loved growing up. There was everything... trains, firetrucks, grocery shops, art, clay, a mini dance studio.
Things like this make me want to move to Denver.
Love you guys,
Abigail
Don't you dare! But if you are going to move away, at least you picked a cool city and state. It is a good thing you grew up next to the second highest mountain in Saginaw County, to acclimate yourself to the mountains.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you are finding yourself able to enter into this experience wholeheartedly. As Paul said, "Whatever you do. . ." I am sure that this experience will color the way you look at life and what matters most through the rest of your life, and you have so much to contribute.