Week 7: St. Joseph's and St. Anthony's-Wednesday

We woke up around 7:40ish to the sound of Diana's IPhone. For breakfast we had an array of delectable delights including off brand fruity bally, crispy ricey, frosty flakey and cheerios. There was also delicious bagels. After that we scrambled into our circles because Luke had warned the previous day about how late we had been. Shame on us. Yet we learned our lesson. We said our prayers of wisdom, which was the theme for today. Wisdom! Then we were given instructions for today. One group was to go to "cash and carry"  and get groceries like rice and flour, eggs, onions, all that good stuff. While everyone else moved the food and school supplies stored under the church, into the moving truck. We went to what looked like a mini park to us. There were many families there already waiting for us. We set up tables and unloaded the truck to set up for the food bank Some youth were assigned school supply sorting. Everyone was assigned a certain box (of crayons, pencils, paper etc.) and they were passing around the many backpacks filling them up for the school aged kids. After we finished setting up, we took a much anticipated lunch break. We had gourmet, handmade, somewhat fresh, cold, sandwiches. Then we chose what stations we wanted to be at. Canned fruit, vegetables, soup, diapers, rice etc. or help pass out school supplies. You could also help families carry their boxes of food.  I took one year of Spanish at school. So i had basic knowledge. I would "Quarto sopas" which meant, "Four soups" or "no limites" meaning "no limit"(get as much as you like) I also shouted to the excited kids "Gusta nuevo mochilla?" meaning "You like your new backpack?" but it could not remember how to conjugate it.... ha ha.... we also said "de nada" when they thanked us. Later, when the rush of families were gone, we took a small snack break. Some dude named Manuel i think had made us some homemade delicious Popsicle. And im not even exaggerating it was good! They had strawberry, mango, chocolate, coconut, raspberry. They had real bits of the fruits in it!  The kids who got their backpacks were super excited! They immediately dug through them like it was Christmas. He was SOOOO happy! It was enlightening to see their happy faces! When it was time to close up, we sorted the cans by expiration date. The ones that were expired we threw away, the ones that would expire this year we gave to another food bank to donate, and the ones that would be saved to next year we kept. Then we put every thing away, and packed up to leave. When we got back we had "Tacos" but in reality they were burritos. Still the best dinner of all week. ACTUAL MEAT YES!!!! The groups did their chores after that. Then we reflected the day in our journals. then me and Amy got together and wrote this post for you.

So that was our day!

-Rubi and Amy