Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
Today was our last day of sewing 🙁 We started our day off with a couple hours of finish-up work, followed by an educational video about where all of our clothes will be going! After a quick snack and a couple more hours of work, we were treated to a super special Healthy Garden...
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Today we got up bright and early to eat breakfast at the hotel! We hopped in the minivan and were on our way by 7. Most of our crew started out their morning at Nancy’s kitchen working a variety of jobs from server to busser. Kristin and Georgia were photo assistants for the Disney...
Continue readingThe bus careened toward the Restore, our 3rd Day set to begin. There were tiles, there were asphalt shingles, and there were rugs, oh so many rugs. We started by hardily smashing furniture sets with sledge hammers. Half of the group quickly moved to the Restore’s secondary warehouse to dispose of broken pallets. One...
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After a quick breakfast at 6:30, we headed over to the Give Kids the World Village to work in the arcade and help serve breakfast. It was Lina’s birthday (a 12 year old wish kid), so we sang to her, gave her cake, and painted her nails. Before we knew it, breakfast was over, so...
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Today we said goodbye to the community of FES. It was very sad and sweet at the same time, and all of us feel that we would not want to trade the experience for the world. Then we headed on the bus towards Córdoba, which took two hours. Once we arrived, we went to...
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Yesterday’s destinations were visited by different groups; we had some canine visitors to cheer us!...
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Everyone embarked on different projects today. After we made some jumpers, dresses, and other baby outfits, our projects were hung on display in front of the window to display our hard work. After picking up food from Main Street, we headed back and settled into an afternoon of hard work....
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3/29/16: After a good night’s sleep we had another early start today and ate breakfast at 6:30 AM. At about 7:00 AM we left the hotel and headed over to Give Kids the World. We all had new jobs like helping children to get their stars placed on the walls of the Castle and...
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Today we helped in a bilingual class of kindergarteners and first graders. They were so cute. It was a lot of fun to talk to them in Spanish. We headed off to Philadelphia to visit Southwark, an elementary school introducing a bilingual program. We helped out with kindergarten and first graders who were doing...
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After the tour yesterday we were ready to start working. Today we worked on sanding different parts of the masts for the boat. In total we sanded close to 5 masts. This was to prep the masts for the varnish tomorrow so that the new varnish will stay on the wood for a while....
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This morning we went to the Casa Del Niños art school. We did many different service projects, such as painting beams, shoveling old footings so that new foundation can be put down, cutting rebar, and then making them into squares for rebar foundations. Then we went to a women’s craft collective. There we learned the...
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Day 2: Today we visited Habitat For Humanity’s Restore Center, and it was an extremely different experience than Palmyra Cove. We started off the day with a tour of the center by Mike. Mike showed us where we would be working and then we split up into groups. Some went to clean up carpeting,...
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