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Today, we are all tired...

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 The hard work and heat has begun to hit us, but it has not dampened our spirit at all!  We started the day off with Mass and continued our work.  Some teams that were finished with jobs got assigned new ones for today.  My group, hardworking as they are, haven't finished all the work needed at the horse farm, so we went back today and will be going back tomorrow.  Something happened at the farm last night that spooked one of the horses, and he tried to escape by jumping over one of the new fences.  The horse is fine, but unfortunately he broke the brand new gate.  That had to be fixed, but by the end of the day, Isabella, Shannon, Micheal, Yinghong, and I were able to get all six gates completed (one day early!).  On my van ride this morning, there was some discussion about Adoration last night.  I'm delighted to hear how this program affected the kids.  A good chunk of them mentioned that they got a little emotional, and the simple fact that they were willing to share that wi
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Adoration, Dance Party, and Worksites

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 Hi all, Tonight, we had Adoration. It was a beautiful service and I had many kids come up to me and express how thankful they were for the opportunity.  If you are a parent of one of the kids on the trip, I highly suggest you ask them about this night when we come back.  It could very well prompt good conversation.  Because it was a late night, long day, and hot as well, I'm just going to share some pictures.  There was a very fun dance party, but we were having too much fun to take pictures!  Betsy and Time matching shirts (Shirts from the Montana trip in 2019) Natalie and Jared in Taco Tuesday shirts Below: Pictures of Brian, Theresa, and Marissa's team project! Below: Adoration Below: Card games Some more pictures of my group below: Below: Alex, Julia, and Katie show pictures after their clean-up project and what it looked like before!
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Video of a job at Catholic Heart Workcamp

 Here, Keira and Thomas detail the work they've been doing over the past two days with Richard from the Southern Delaware Therapeutic Riding Farm:
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Day two: Get To Work

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Today we all traveled to our sites.  I am in charge of a group of 11.  We are working at a Horse Therapeutic Riding Center.  They focus on providing enrichment experiences and physical therapy to children and adults with various disabilities.   I've been going on these trips for 25 years at this point, and I have to say that the staff members at this particular agency (all volunteers btw) are making this one of my favorite service trips I've ever done.  The majority of them are retired men that simply hang out at the center and work full time.  They have a great bond with each other which is making for some fun times as they joke quite a bit.  There is about 10 of them and they have been so kind to our group taking us all under their wings, breaking us into groups, and leading us in the various projects.  Personally, I worked with Isabella and Shannon, and we were lead by CJ and Turner.  Our job was to demo a horse stable gate and build a new one.  I've attached some pictur
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