Thursday, August 16, 2012

River Gorge Hike - West Virginia




I woke up to people talking in the kitchen, which motivated me to get out of bed. Then we had orientation with the team where we set goals and learned what we were going to do for the rest of the week. Lunch came next. It was like a huge rush of people grabbing and taking all sorts of food from leftover spaghetti to opening cans of tuna needing Michael and his handy grandfather’s pocket knife.

Later came our walk to the Gorge. It was a breathtakingly beautiful sight to see. Nevertheless, some people were sweating like pigs and there was a dire need for A.C. We then went on a hunt for some ice cream. After numerous stops and some pretty weird excuses for being closed such as the cash register not working, we finally prevailed in finding an open ice cream shop. Afterwards, we returned to the dorm and some of us challenged one another to an intense game of scrabble until dinner time. Following dinner, John Davis came in to talk to us which was pretty lengthy, but we achieved one of our tasks in learning about the community. Tomorrow we start work.
                                                                              
- Ellie

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