Week 6

This week was wonderfully exciting!  Monday was the first day company employees of Nestle started bringing in their employees for low ropes team building courses.  This was also the day of a field visit that probably could have gone on all day when taking into consideration the enormous amount of fun activities going on at Jameson.  I had a meeting with Tim that took up a considerable amount of time Monday afternoon.  I began to feel stressed out thinking about everything that needed to get done that evening because of the heavy influx of assignments not only at Jameson, but in classes and other jobs.  We talked about the toy drive that will take place in December.  I will be helping families fill out applications for receiving toys and working on advertising to the families about the event.  Tim and I also went over the agenda for meeting with our AVID class at Ben Davis Wednesday morning.  We pulled out some of the materials we would need to take, and I made an outline of what I wanted to talk about with the seniors.  We printed the (hopefully) final edition of the AVID Conference schedule to hand out to the seniors, too (now I know what cardstock is...).   We spoke of improving a program  for mentors and mentees that has been attempted last year but needs expanding this year.  Tim wants me to look into improving it.  Monday was also the start for the design of an invitation to over 400 people inviting them to attend the Halloween Happening at the end of the month (which the youth leaders will plan-exciting!).  

Wednesday was exhausting.  I got to Jameson early to pick up the supplies and head to our AVID class at BD.  We did a complete review of all the activities the seniors will facilitate.  Plus, we gave them tips to help the day go smoothly.  Afterward, we got back to camp to set up the low ropes course, and this was all ready.  Jeremy, Tim, and I (all anticipating the facilitation of a low ropes course for about 50 people) hung out and waited for buses to arrive and the participants to get coffee and debriefing.  The low ropes went very well except for time constraints.  I had the privilege of leading an element called Trollies.  I had 3 groups of older workers who listened fairly well.  They were all open-minded about my crazy scenario.  I told them that there was a mosquito-spraying crew who spilled a large amount of extremely toxic repellant in an area so (I was wearing a pair of steel boots) I told them they had to have all 5 members (3 teams) move across the terrain with each of their feet on the two long boards under them.  They had to move in a circle around a cone.  Some groups were too fast.  A few overly ambitious people had strange and wonderful things happen in the story to cause them to lose sight or voices.  Other teams had to turn around or go backward.  This was simply a blast.

The afternoon consisted of planning out what food will be used from the leftover stock of kitchen goods when we go to host the first Follow-up.  Tim and I planned a snack, breakfast, and a lunch.  When we were done there, we printed out 400 invitations, started labeling them and called it a day.