Day Four

7:45- Left camp for the morning’s project

8:00- Arrived & continued roto-tilling an over-grown lawn with the whole of the group divided into two teams.
Each team spent half the morning working on the roto-tilling project, and each group played a game developed by Sean to simulate post-disaster life, which helped us better understand necessity of resources, how social status effects people, and how difficult it is to distribute necessary goods to the people in need.
While Rob Howard and Jeff tilled, the rest of the group raked and collected the turned up grass. Much to our surprise, Alissa found a baby turtle buried in the dirt. We named it Michaelangelo and gave it a home in the bamboo plants nearby.

9:30- Piled into vans and rushed over to Winn-Dixie (aka the “Safeway of Mississippi’) for a quick bathroom break

10:00- Groups switched roles back at the job-site

12:30- Groups arrived back at the Tents on the campsite to eat bag lunches in the Dining Hall.

1:30- We got our new job from work supervisor Randy, and followed him out to the worksite. When we arrived, the clouds opened up and began to pour out the heavens. Lightning was an added bonus! Randy came back and informed us the conditions were unsafe to continue working and we headed back to camp for a second time.

3:00- Back at camp, we decided to go swimming on account of the heat and more importantly the humidity. Even though us Californians are used to heat over one hundred degrees, here in Mississippi, even ninety degree heat can be stifling, when combined with humidity levels easily reaching 95%. Michael C. located an indoor pool and as the weather miraculously began to clear, we set off, hoping that in the time it took us to arrive at the “Natatorium” the pool would be open, in spite of the adverse weather. Upon arrival we discovered there were 22 listed rules including the rule that all swimsuits had to have a real lining (they checked everyone!) which resulted in several people going to Walmart to buy new suits (sorry Phil and Sarah, all the local shops are destroyed).

5:30- We left the pool (all pruney!) and headed back for dinner.

6:00- Dinner and then free time

7:30- Small Group Time: During small group time different groups partook in various activities, while ours (Erin, Liz, Chris, Robert Haycock, and Nate) wrote this blog.

8:45- Compline

10:00- Lights Out
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Dear God,
Thank you for this day; the chance to serve you, and worship you, and love you. Your creation is awesome and I am so happy to be a part of it.
You ROCK!!!