With an early start this morning, everyone was a little bit slow getting out of the plywood-bottomed beds. Thanks to the wonderful trip chefs, Stacey and Luanne, we were all supplied with an enormous selection of quality breakfast foods that gave everyone the needed nutrition to start the day. After breakfast we met with the construction leaders to get our morning construction assignments. In a nutshell, our group gutted out a small apartment in the Wherry Housing Community. It was so neat to see everyone working together, and I think we surprised ourselves at how much we accomplished in the first day of construction. I cannot wait to see what the rest of the week will bring for the renovation of the apartments in the housing community.
After the construction work, the group returned back to the dining hall for some gourmet crispitos and nachos. When lunch was finished, the music camp begun. I went back to my room and got a much needed power nap, since I am leading in the sports clinic. From what I hear, the music camp had a great turn out today of around 45 people total. The sports camp had about the same number. In the sports camp, we started out playing soccer. I noticed yesterday that the kids in this community have a knack for the game of soccer as I observed a game of what seemed to be around 75 players. They enjoyed soccer so much that several groups did not play football for the second half of the sports clinic, they instead played another game of soccer.
Once the camps were completed and the group had gotten prepared to depart, a pizza dinner was fed to the group. After eating, we departed the Wherry Housing Community for Nashville to sing the National Anthem at the Nashville Sounds AAA baseball game. A brief thunderstorm before the game yielded fairly cool weather tonight, which was very nice after such a scorching day today. The National Anthem sounded great (from what I could tell), and after singing the group enjoyed watching the game. Some of the group members, including myself, had the opportunity to go down on the field and play a few games. The Sounds ended up losing to Memphis 5-7, which was kind of disappointing, but everyone would agree that we had a great time at the game!
We are now listening to a devotional from Terry Taylor and eating ice cream sundaes, which I am about to go eat.....
by Charlie
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