It's been a long day. We're currently waiting for dinner to be ready - macaroni and cheese bar (lots of toppings) in honor of the Macaroni Marronese at Camp Palomar. After dinner come the SHOWERS at the local pool. The bathrooms here don't get fixed until tomorrow.
We started work at All Peoples today. In the morning, we heard a lot about the wide array of services that they offer for all ages (everything from daycare to Anger Management and Domestic Violence Prevention classes and a bookgroup). We also took a tour of the building, which I will probably never learn my way around; too many doors! We did various types of work around the place in the morning as well. I helped to re-organize a closet, and Sarah and I devised a new way to roll up tents and tent poles. The tents were a huge undertaking, given that we needed to make sure that each had complete parts (a very complicated process that involved most of our group). Other members of our group went off and did some data entering and processing and condensing, and I don't know what else. I hear that tomorrow we get to do some rug shampooing.
In the afternoon, we split up to work with various groups of kids in the after-school program. Jasper, Sarah, and I went to help 4th and 5th graders with homework. Fractions and maps and reading comprehension and so on. We had a test as well: we had to remember all of the kids' names. I made it through 9, which was pretty good considering that there were about 20 kids there. Partway through, Sarah, Julie, Joey, and I left to do grocery shopping. Two carts later, and we still only got enough food to last us through the end of Wednesday. It's hard to realize what shopping for a group really means, until you've done it.
Regarding the color of the church being related to the type of disaster - there are pictures of fish here, and as far as I know, FCCB is still decorated for Pentacost. So there are definitely aliens in green churches. Rainbow ones have all sorts of problems. Clear churches are hard to get a congregation at. And we're not sure what happens at purple churches.
Oh, just for the record, Monica and Alice arrived safely.
All for now, as dinner is ready! And Way Way just presented with me with a "baby sunflower" (daisy)...very cute!
Love, Rebecca
1 comment:
Yay for Blogs! It's nice to keep up (sort of) with what you guys are up to! I wish I could be there!
Alice & Monica, glad to know you arrived safe.
Today was the first day of my shakespeare camp. I'm working with the 6th and 7th graders. Explaining bits of the plot of Pericles to them was... um... interesting. They're great kids though.
Hope your week continues to be exciting (in good ways) and that the showers get fixed soon!
love,
Rachel
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