STONE SOUP!!!

My last post was insignificant and lame. I'm sorry. I'm going to tell you about the important things. City Year. Young Heroes. Camp City Year. Senior corps application. Did I mention City Year?

We're going through the application process for senior corps/team leader positions for next year. I'm getting very nervous as the process is quickly coming to a close. We've had time to "lead" other teams, have our interviews, and get freaked. It's hard because City Year is kind of my only option at the moment for next year. I really really want to come back as a team leader. I know that may make me super lame, Leigh, but it's true. City Year has been the best dang experience of my entire life and I'm not ready or willing for that to be over. So cross your fingers and think happy thoughts on March 13 (a Friday, by the way).

Young Heroes is still amazing and going strong. Last week we educated the Young Heroes about the Homeless population and they all went to various locations for service in the afternoon. The programming in the morning was fantastic. Carly arranged a rotation of quick games they had to win in order to get supplies to make a home out of a cardboard box. Guess which team won. Stone Soup of course. That afternoon my team went to the soup kitchen at the Samm Shelter. It was amazing. The man, Thomas, who ran the kitchen there said that our kids were great and more hard working than most of the volunteers that come every week. Yay, Stone Soup is basically the greatest. This service project reminded me of all my great and first experiences serving that got me hooked. It's really amazing to be in a position where I'm leading youth who are potentially having those same experiences. Goosebumps. Today was amazing with the Young Heroes as well. We spend the morning just in our team talking about people with different abilities. Our service during the afternoon was at the Mission Road Development Center. It's a home for children and adults with developmental disabilities. Our kids loved it and really got into the last part of the afternoon, which was playing basketball with the children at the center. One of the children played basketball really well. I also brought Falkor to this Young Heroes saturday. He was a big hit with the Young Heroes when we were hanging out in the morning, waiting for everyone to arrive and the building to be opened. And he was so great with the children at the development center. All of our Stone Soupers had a fantastic time. If they had a thorn for the day it was only that we didn't get to stay at the development center longer.

I have to run with my roommate to goodwill now. I'll write more about Camp City Year later :)