Thursday-our last work day

Zeke working hard in the sun

Enjoying our meal with the Orlando team at Versaille

Today was our last day of work. My group went to Neat Stuff. It's a store that gives brand new clothing to foster children that need it. Other stores and companies donate their extra clothes to Neat Stuff. When we first got there we took clothes off hangers and folded them. The pile looked like it would have taken us forever, but it really diddn't take that long. We had to fold them a certain way. If we didn't, we were showed the correct way to fold it. Over and over! After we finished that we had to pack backpacks with school clothes. We had to put 3 shirts and 2 pants in the backpacks. 800 kids come to Neat Stuff and get clothes and backpacks for school completely free. It was really hectic trying to put all those backpacks together. Renee (our group leader) went and got her and I coffee. After that I was so ready to get all of those backpacks ready. Later all of us worked on backpacks. Then we took our lunch break and stopped at the coffee shop and got more coffee! When we came back had to get pants ready and hang them up. It took us while to get them all ready because they had to be folded just right. After that we came back to the church. We have somethinng special every night we are here. Tonight we are going to an all praise worship service that is geared for young people. I was really glad today was our last day of work, but I know i'm really going to miss this place and all the other places we went. What I'm going to miss the most of all is seeing the look on the peoples faces when they know that we are helping them.

-Sammie Cragun

It's finally thursday!!!!! But before our last day of work, we had a free night last night. That basically means that instead of staying at the church for the night, we went out. For dinner, we abandoned our normal "american" food and went to a ery nice cuban resturuant called Versaille. It was a little different but i think we all enjoyed the change. After that, we did a little shopping cause it was late. Now, for our last day working for the community, me and some of the boys went to a school in downtown miami. This was called the Yvonne learning center an this was for pre-school and kindergarden kids who were on the verge or they had basically nothing. All we did was mulch flower beds and pulled weeds. All day long... It wasnt my favorite but it looked good when we were done. It went by fast cause everyone was cooperating and we got done eary!!!!!!

~Katie Cragun^^