Ok, so it's been awhile since I posted but I rarely have internet access when I'm not working, and I'm super busy. Not that I'm complaining, you all know how much I love being on the move. Anyway, this past week we did a lot more prep for the ACC, including the dreaded spreadsheets. Office work is usually fun for me, but so much editing has to be done and redone on those spreadsheets that after awhile I ready to delete them all and run. Oh well, week one chart is mostly done, just have to focus on week two.

Stories on Wheels started up again this past week and some of my favorite kids are still there, I'm so happy! A few have moved, but it happens. Anyway, we started in Lakeview, but didn't get to do much. We can't go there till mid-morning or none of the kids will be awake, and there is a free lunch program near-by at 11:00 so we only play for a little over an hour then hung out while they ate. After that we headed to Elaine for a meeting about getting the community center running there. We made plans to paint it, and did on Thursday, but the day before that was too crazy to start.

See, on Wednesday we had a volunteer youth group come in. 64 people, in tiny little Helena.

Thats all of them in the tiny little Eden Market. Oh my. Anyway, half the group stayed and picked weeds in the garden, and the other half came with me and one of the other interns to the community center in Helena to organize the Imagination Station, which hasn't been able to be used in over a year because of how messed up it was. We worked for about an hour then had to go to lunch, then sent the volunteers to the Boys and Girls club to play with the kids while we went back to the community center to keep working. Yeah, it took another day but we got it done. Beast. I wish I had a picture of how bad it looked when we got there, but think of a large pile of STUFF and not being able to touch the other wall suddenly becoming a neatly organized room with everything sorted in boxes on shelves. Ugh, I dont even know how much we threw away, but its beautiful now.

Friday was another fun day as we attended the Helena Public housing picnic. I stayed at the registration table being mobbed by small children while the other interns set up games while also being mobbed by small children. But, it was really fun in the end, and we got a lot of people to sign up for the swim lessons we'll be doing this summer.

Saturday was quite productive, too. The Helena Farmers Market is every Saturday during the summer, and this week the Delta Jewels were selling there and I helped supervise. We didn't get a lot of sales, but I got to hang out with the girls and try a sweet potato brownie! Yum! After that we had the regular Delta Jewels class. We continued sales that night at the new Second Saturday Art Walk in Helena, which was really awesome and our sales went a lot better. Anyway, I need some rest now, so have a good week all, sorry this post is so random.