Last night on the trip.

I can not believe that today is our last day! Well, today we drove to New Orleans. When we got here, we settled in our really big hotel. After that, we walked all the way to the French Quarters. We saw a lot of people playing their interments and selling art work. After walking and taking a lot of pictures we went to the French Market. It was filled with store after store. I bought a lot of really cool stuff. They had the best tasting strawberry lemonade. It was really hot, so we walked back and had a pool party. For dinner we had pizza, it was really good. Now we are watching Mississippi Son. I can't wait to go back to my own bed. So, we will see you all tomorrow.

By: Rhyana Steffen

Last Day of Work

Today has been a great day! In the morning we all helped out the people of Lakeshore, Mississippi with a seminar on "How to Stretch Your Grocery Budget" by setting up for it, doing a childcare service, and carrying food items of the visitors. We also made some friends from Alabama that were trying to teach us how to say "ya'll". For lunch we had hot pink hot dogs, pink lemonade, and potato chips. Then, we met on the deck where the Alabama group taught us how to do some Alabama dance moves. After all that, we did some odd cleaning jobs around camp, including the bathrooms. Instead of eating dinner at camp, we went out to eat at BB's BBQ and had some good ribs. Now we are going to see Toy Story 3 and are wondering how it will turn out: good, bad, or somewhere inbetween. We are so excited about the movie and free day in New Orleans tomorrow. Have a great night!

By: Dawson Rubin and Cameron Berglund

Just some of our adventures this week

It has been an amazing week so far for us and I am so excited for each and every one of your students to come home and tell you about what they've experienced here. (Though I really have enjoyed spending the week so far with them all and will miss everyone of them!) More thoughts in a few days but for now here are some pictures of SOME of the things we've been up to. Enjoy! : )

Robin

Work day 3 (6/23)

Hi everyone!
Today was another work day. After a breakfasts of scrambled eggs, sausage, biscuits and toast, we split up. One group went to Walmart to get supplies. Another group stacked soap in the church bathrooms after getting the sanctuary ready for the service. Yet another group moved a tree a couple feet away from the house. The last group cleaned out the area under the bunkhouse. Later we did a bunch of small of small projects, like planting iris bulbs using only our feet. Super fun!! Other people moved tarps, etc. onto a truck. While moving stuff, some people got bitten by fire ants, including Jessie and Rebecca. That was an experience we could've done without. For lunch we had sandwiches, watermelon, and a cheese dish. Now we are sitting in the cafeteria writing this blog entry for you to read. Duh. What else? Then we are going back out to work. But for now, Jessie and Rebecca are tired so we are now going to end the entry. We hope you have a nice rest of the day:)

Your beloved family members,
Jessie and Rebecca

A blog for the day...

Today we started out normal. We ate breakfast (frosted flakes for Tanner) and got to work. We congregated in a room together and talked about the bible story where Nehemiah’s city wall was crumbling. Her assigned all the peeps of the city a section by their house to build the was so they would build it strongly. They explained that we would be rebuilding a path around where we are now and we would have to build it strong for it to last. We split up into 3 groups. Dawson, Eric (co-blogger), Brad, and Jordan were working on replacing some bad boards on the deck.

We don't have an after picture for the boards, Megan dropped the ball on it

Tanner (co-blogger), Rhyana, Carols, Jessica, Lindsey, Morgan, Lynette, Wes, Jeff, Megan and Rebecca were working on remaking the path, it looks good now!



Nick, Cameron, Scott, Rubin- I mean Robin , Joe, Maddie, Jenna, and Brock were working on setting up the tent (its harder than it sounds!) by the kitchen.



Everybody worked hard, really hard, really really hard until lunch. Then we went to lunch, which was PINK hotdogs, probably worse that the worst meal you moms have ever made. Afterwards, we went back to work; finished remodeling the path, finished replacing the boards, and finished putting up the tent. Then we took some time to write in out journals before going to the Mockingbird Café for some drinks and devotional by Eric, Brad, and Jordan. They talked about the gifts God gave you and how we can use them to the best of our ability and about facing our fears with our gifts. Then at the end of the devotional, Eric did face his hear and prayed out loud in front of the whole group. It was awesome. Then we went for a walk before getting back in the cars and going home. Straight to bed from there after writing the blog!

SOME OTHER THOUGHTS AND DISCOVERIES
• We made sure Carlos had tons of sunscreen on and he drank about a million bottles of water
• Rhyana really likes Paramore, ask her about it later.
• Whoopie cushions have been a big hit with Lindsey, Morgan, Jessica, and Maddie.
• Jenna has the most hilarious funny face
• Cameron conquered the power tools and was going to town screwing boards into the deck with a sledgehammer- I mean drill
• Jordan really likes to videotape things
• Tanner & Eric are awesome 

-Tanner & Eric

The Mockingbird Cafe

Untitled from wes wilson on Vimeo.

More Work

We woke up early again to another hot day. We had a delicious breakfast that consisted of eggs, bacon, toast, and cereal. After that we split up into three groups to work on projects on the campus. Half of us were working on repairing a pathway that was completely overgrown by grass. They had to take out all the old bricks, pull weeds, even out the ground, and lay out new bricks and gravel. The second group worked together to build a very complex tent. It was made by a ninety year old man who welded everything himself and was really hard to figure out. A couple kids were repairing broken floorboards by the bathroom. Half the path is done, the top half of the tent is done, and the floorboards are coming along great! As of now lunch is being served so we'd like to finish up and go eat. We're hungry.

We're exited for the rest of the day even though we're not sure what projects we'll be doing. Thanks for praying for us!

Maddie and Jenna