Day Two Hey guys! Today we made quilts! Everyone improved their skills and can finish quilting more quickly. We were grouped in pairs of two to help each other out. All of us were focused and careful. During lunch, we went uptown and ate at Passarello’s. We then went to Starbuck’s afterwards. All of...
Continue readingHabitat for Humanity: Demolition
Day Two Today, we had breakfast as soon as we arrived. Then, we went to the Habitat Restore warehouse to do whatever was needed. The visit was actually a surprise because we were supposed to be making raised beds, but due to frigid temperatures we decided to change our plans. Of course, the Habitat community...
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China: Off to market
Day Three 3/24, after breakfast, we took the bus to visit the Bethel Foundation in southwest Beijing. The foundation is a place for blind orphans. While we were there we cleaned, picked up tree branches, washed down play equipment, and cleaned up their pool. All the kids were friendly and the staff was nice....
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Lacrosse: Bye Bye S. Jersey . . . Hello Phoenix!
Day Two After waiting for someone who was late (and attending the Flyers – Blues Game), our LAX equipment was successfully checked in, oversized bags and all. Luckily, we had no issues with security and even our rowdy members are now safe and aboard our fantastic flight to Phoenix. Hasta la Vista MFS! –...
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Costa Rica: Painting the playground
Day Three Annie Today was amazing! We started out our day by visiting a small school after breakfast. We helped paint a playground and also some classrooms. We got to play with some of the local children. We all had an excellent meal of rice, salad, chips and pineapple juice together. When we finished...
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China: Just a quick report
We arrived safe and sound (I mean sound). After a BBQ dinner, we slept well. We just had Chinese buffet breakfast. Internet is not that smooth, and we are still uploading pictures. We are leaving for the Forbidden City now....
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Costa Rica: Planting trees with local children
Day Two After breakfast at 7:30, we headed to the school to work with the children. When we got there, we were each assigned a child and we planted trees with them. We then helped the students to paint signs with the name of the tree and their name to place in front of...
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Blacksmithing Day One: Getting the fires going
Today we learned about the history and mission of the Harriton House and then got right to work getting the fires going and trying our hands at making hooks. All of the students jumped right in. On Monday, we will learn a few new techniques. Students have already started thinking about individual projects they...
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Exploring Art: Enlivening the ruins
Day One Today in our Exploring Art intensive learning trip we traveled to Fairmount Park in order to address the remains of a former home as a location for site-specific art. The structure was a mere ruin with visible entrances, however there were no doors or windows. Many street artists have taken advantage of...
Continue readingAppalachian Trail: Spring butterfly
Well, today was glamorous. The day started off with everyone filling up their reusable water bottles. We left in awesome SUVs for the Camden Children’s Garden and I, David, DJed the heck out of the ride. I accidentally changed songs when everyone got really into the music and after that almost had to walk...
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First Day of Quilting!
For the first day of quilting we mostly learned how to work the sewing machine and sew pieces of cloth together. We first learned to sew small scrap pieces of cloth together to understand how the machine worked. We all then attempted to sew a pillow. This took up the majority of our day....
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Pine Barrens: Pines and old train lines
Day One Today the trip started off with a discussion of John McPhee’s Pine Barrens, where we all shared a chapter. We posed some questions about what our week might be like based on the information in the book. We then took a bus out to Carranza Memorial, observing the effects of controlled burns, which...
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Habitat for Humanity: Twelve attempts to roll up a carpet, or, the value of a hard day’s work
Day One For day one of our Habitat for Humanity Intensive Learning we traveled to the Burlington County Habitat for Humanity Restore. They were moving their offices to a new store on Rt. 38 and needed our help packing and loading their old office. We filled boxes and stacked them onto pallets to be...
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Blacksmithing
We will be learning the basics of coal forge blacksmithing. Pictures of the students work and the students working will be posted here along with descriptions of what we have done each day. ...
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