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Welcome to my little corner of the inter-webs! I just wanted to take this space to warn you that my posts will rarely be up to date. Due to the spontaneity of natural disasters and the unpredictability of when AmeriCorps' services will be requested I will be digitizing my journal entries whenever we return to St. Louis. Oh, and most of the pictures you see here were taken by myself. If ever I do use someone else's material I make a point to give them due credit though! That said, come, leave comments and be merry! I hope you enjoy your stay!

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Ava - 4/2

The Easter Egg hunt is on!  After a fun day of service my team returned to the Ava compound with a sweet tooth.  They proceeded to find all but 3 of the 18 hidden throughout the trailer and let out exclamations of joy whenever one contained the treasured Reese Pieces.  I’d count this as a success!  Note to self, next time I buy multi flavored jelly beans avoid the ones with the “buttered popcorn” taste.  Eating one of these resulted in expressions similar to what one might expect to see after chomping down on a Bertie Bott’s vomit flavored bean.


As for our fun day, we got to work on the Hercules fire tower!  It has 9 flights of stairs and climbing the 4th puts you above the tree line to give you an idea of its height.  We took out the stairs one plank at a time, sawed a new one, then replaced the rotten and breaking boards.  The task may have been a little perilous, but I felt more attached to this project than any other I have undertaken in AmeriCorps.  I’m hoping we get to go back tomorrow, but I’ll settle for a fire too!  Night friends.  Hope you all are doing well!


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