If you didn't already know, Staurady October 23rd was make a difference day. For this all of the Americorps NCCC members here were sent to different community gardens and school yards to help with gardening/cleaning up.
My team (silver 1) along with silver 2 were sent about 30 minutes from campus to the Mather Community Campus. It's a place for homeless to go. They can stay for 2 years while they get different trainging and counceling to get them back on their feet. There is a community garden there where they had all kinds of vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, along with sunflowers and marigolds. In the center there was even a chicken coop along with a turkey.
Most of the plants were no longer useable as far as food goes, and they were also covered with weeds. So our job was to clear out all unwanted plants as well as build a fenced area for composting. We got most of the garden looking quite nice and definitely prepared for planting in the spring. It was a fairly long day but I enjoyed it more than expected. It was nice to meet members of the other team and just play games with everyone all day.
Saturday was also a teammates birthday(Kyle). He really didn't want a fuss made about it but everyone else decided otherwise. Later that night we all headed to Chilis and it was lots of fun! Of course we made them sing to him and they brought a brownie with ice cream on top. Delicious! It was the first real outing with my new team and it was fun to see everyone get dressed up for the occasion.
On Saturday we also found out where our first spike (project) will be! We are heading to Alpaugh, Ca on Nov. 4th. In hopes of not rambling forever on this blog I will save more info about that for a later time. Can't wait to start the project! I'll check back in soon...
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