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Appalachian Service Project
Senior High
Mission Trip to
Wise County, Virginia
Day Three: Monday, July 7
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Monday was our first real day on the job. We were divided into three teams, each named after a board game. Our team was called Jumanji, and our assignment was to finish a wheelchair ramp. I was so busy measuring, cutting and showing our team how to use a circular saw, that I forgot to take pictures (not like me at all). I promise some pictures for tomorrow.
Below are a number of pictures from the Rook team project. John Parker was one of the adults on the Rook team, and fortunately, he remembered to use his camera. Their team task was to remove a old retaining wall and erect cinder blocks supports to shore up the house.
After dinner, we had a trip to DQ for ice cream and an impromptu sing along in the cafeteria.
P.S. If you're wondering why you kid hasn't phoned home, there is no cellular service here at the High School (which is okay by all the adults).
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1. After breakfast (and cleanup) Christine and Sarah make sandwiches for their team, Jumanji. |
2. Janet surveys the retaining wall behind the house. |
3. Kara and Zack stack cinder blocks. |
4. Shannon and Miranda recycle the retaining wall stones to the front of the house, where they are stacked into a smaller free stone wall.. |
5. The old retaining wall has to go. |
6. Kara, with all the appropriate safety equipment, trims a piece of particle board. |
7. Shannon and Miranda start removing vegitation under Janet's watchful eye. |
8. Meghan tacks up flashing. |
9. Kara measure her particle board. |
23. An abandoned building in downtown Appalachia. |
10. The Rook team drew dinner clean-up, Shannon on the dishwasher, Meghan on the pressure washer and Zack sorted and stacked. |
11. Unfortunately for the Rook's, Monday's dinner was spaghetti. |
12. Meghan has had her fill of red sauce. |
13. We sing some songs during evening devotions, and Giuliano joins the band. |
14. Solving a jigsaw puzzle, silently. |
15. Our finished puzzle, a wheelbarrow. |
16. Our puzzle teams stayed together to discuss our first impressions of our families and of Appalachia. |
17. Teams congregated at any convenient spot. |
18. The "Wheelbarrow" team choose the steps leading down to the athletic field, from where we could watch the lighting strikes in the distant mountains. |
19. The girls enjoy a DQ. |
20. John Parker and Kathy Robbins |
21. Mugging for a contraband cell phone. |
22. Our girls sing their way through the trip songbook. |