Tree Planting!

The last portion of this week’s work has included painting the bathroom in the main house and helping the Wolf River Conservancy out with a big tree planting volunteer day. It was freezing out, but we still had over 100 volunteers come out and plant 3.000 trees in only two hours! I was really impressed with the number of people who still came out, despite the cold weather conditions, and with how fast they all worked (Probably because they wanted to stay warm)! My job was to sit at the sign-in table, which was awesome because I got to chat with everyone that participated!

They were all really nice and chipper, even though I’m sure they would have rather been at home curled up on the couch with some hot cocoa! Since the event only lasted a half-day, we came back to the house and worked on making Capping calls to schools in the area and on our resumes. I am realizing that it is really difficult to fit my whole AmeriCorps experience into a few lines in resume form…we have done so many different things and worked with so many different organizations! But it is also very exciting to me that I will actually have something more than just working basketball camps on my resume!

Last night we were invited to watch the Super Bowl at Dr. John McCall’s house (he is the founder of ArkWings). They have a beautiful home and it was really nice of them to invite us over for a bit! They got Central’s BBQ for us and even made us banana splits for dessert! It was a great time with great food, that’s all I can really say since I didn't really care about either team in the Super Bowl this year, so I have to admit I didn't really watch much of the game!