SNOW DAY!!! Because Denver is getting so much snow, it must be a foot by now if not more, I have the rest of the afternoon of along with tomorrow off! I was just outside and went sledding. A bunch of us created a make shift sled using a cardboard box inside of a plastic garbage bag. It worked pretty well for something we just threw together. We also had an interesting snowball fight. Apparently there is another one in about a half hour, but I’m not sure I am up for going back out.
This weekend was really busy for me. On Saturday my team and I raked leaves at five different houses working with Volunteers for America. It was nice to get out of the classroom and work in the community. The five different people we worked for were really nice. One man even gave each of us a small bag of Halloween candy which we all enjoyed thoroughly. On Sunday Amanda, Ellen, Molly and I went and worked at the Denver Children’s Museum for seven hours of ISP. They had us doing all sorts of things including cleaning up the different sections of the museum, folding flyers, cutting pipe cleaners and paper eyes for Halloween, Amanda and I helped with a science project and we all helped clean up. The science project that Amanda and I worked on dealt with germs. The kids had to make a germ using a shaving cream and glue mixture. One little girl, she must have been about four; decided that it would be fun to get the glop all over her face. What made it even cuter was the fact that it contained blue dye that stayed on her face even after the glop was washed off. The Museum is very nice and the people were great to work with.
Monday the Water Unit had the day off because we worked on Saturday. Because of this a group of about eight of us went and did more ISP. We worked with a group called Ground Work Denver (GWD). GWD has obtained a grant to work with the Denver health department to get more people exercising. One way they want to do this is to get people to ride their bikes or walk instead of driving their cars. What we did was something called Community Mapping. In groups of three, we walked a section of a neighborhood and marked what areas need sidewalk repairs, more street lighting, places that had no sidewalks, ect. We then went back to their office and entered the data into the computer. Once they have collected all the data they will decided what area to focus on for their project. Katie, the women we worked with at GWD, was great and bought us pizza for lunch. I would defiantly work with the organization again. Yesterday was more training. We had to be ready to go at 8:45 which is late for us. We spent the morning doing Unit time which consisted of going up in the Bell Tower on campus to look at the view. It was amazing! You could see for miles around including downtown Denver. We then did the base line. I did 32 sit-ups and 35 full push-ups in a min. and I ran the 1.5 miles in 17:38 min. In the afternoon, we had training about healthy life styles. It wasn’t too bad just a bit long.
So that’s what I have been up to the last few days. This morning we did safety training that lasted almost four hours. If you ask me this is a little long even though I know they have to cover what they did so we all know the safety procedures on a project sit. I just think it could have been a little shorter. Since I have tomorrow off I might be going into downtown to walk around and go into some stores or I might go to Bolder, who knows. It will all depend on how the weather is tomorrow.
This weekend was really busy for me. On Saturday my team and I raked leaves at five different houses working with Volunteers for America. It was nice to get out of the classroom and work in the community. The five different people we worked for were really nice. One man even gave each of us a small bag of Halloween candy which we all enjoyed thoroughly. On Sunday Amanda, Ellen, Molly and I went and worked at the Denver Children’s Museum for seven hours of ISP. They had us doing all sorts of things including cleaning up the different sections of the museum, folding flyers, cutting pipe cleaners and paper eyes for Halloween, Amanda and I helped with a science project and we all helped clean up. The science project that Amanda and I worked on dealt with germs. The kids had to make a germ using a shaving cream and glue mixture. One little girl, she must have been about four; decided that it would be fun to get the glop all over her face. What made it even cuter was the fact that it contained blue dye that stayed on her face even after the glop was washed off. The Museum is very nice and the people were great to work with.
Monday the Water Unit had the day off because we worked on Saturday. Because of this a group of about eight of us went and did more ISP. We worked with a group called Ground Work Denver (GWD). GWD has obtained a grant to work with the Denver health department to get more people exercising. One way they want to do this is to get people to ride their bikes or walk instead of driving their cars. What we did was something called Community Mapping. In groups of three, we walked a section of a neighborhood and marked what areas need sidewalk repairs, more street lighting, places that had no sidewalks, ect. We then went back to their office and entered the data into the computer. Once they have collected all the data they will decided what area to focus on for their project. Katie, the women we worked with at GWD, was great and bought us pizza for lunch. I would defiantly work with the organization again. Yesterday was more training. We had to be ready to go at 8:45 which is late for us. We spent the morning doing Unit time which consisted of going up in the Bell Tower on campus to look at the view. It was amazing! You could see for miles around including downtown Denver. We then did the base line. I did 32 sit-ups and 35 full push-ups in a min. and I ran the 1.5 miles in 17:38 min. In the afternoon, we had training about healthy life styles. It wasn’t too bad just a bit long.
So that’s what I have been up to the last few days. This morning we did safety training that lasted almost four hours. If you ask me this is a little long even though I know they have to cover what they did so we all know the safety procedures on a project sit. I just think it could have been a little shorter. Since I have tomorrow off I might be going into downtown to walk around and go into some stores or I might go to Bolder, who knows. It will all depend on how the weather is tomorrow.
