Or However You Pronounce That...

You learn something new everyday. Today, I learned that my boss, whom I have known for over year, doesn't know how to pronounce my last name. He made this clear when he was giving a thank you speech to the volunteers and mentioned the interns by name, or at least, tried to. It's ok, I was entertained by it. Before that though, I had a great and very busy day. This week, in the mornings I'm helping create a library, and the afternoons I help a group of volunteers run a kids camp in Elaine. Today was particularly special because I'm almost done cataloguing and the bookshelf space we have available is nearly full. Even better, we had 50 kids come to camp today. This isn't as big a number as the 120 we serve in Helena, but we don't have as much space or as many volunteers so it's amazing what has happened.

The focus of this camp was to create Book Buddies. Its book shelf for the kids because statistics show that if children have a place to put their books it helps raise their literacy level.

We are also going to provide some books and a bible for the kids at the end of the week. What makes these shelves so much fun is that the kids get to help make them. On days one and two we sanded, and today we painted in several different bright colors. Some of the kids were happy with a solid color, but others added stripes or put their initials on. Before we work on the bookshelves, we have game time, bible story, and music. Well, the volunteer team didn't know the dance moves for one of the songs so I got to lead and look like a fool today. It really was a lot of fun though, and one of the other interns was there laughing at me the whole time. One of the volunteers got video so get excited if it shows up on facebook.

I still can't believe there's only one more day of ACC left, and 10 more days in Helena. I still don't know how to feel about this, and there's no time to actually sit down and think about it, but I know I'm going to miss this. I'm excited for the last week and being able to move slowly again and get a chance to focus, but I have always loved being busy.