March Madness
Another WorkFest has come to an end. Week 3 started off great with lots of warm weather. The first 3 days of the week it was in the 70′s which was a nice change compared to all the rain and cold weather we had in Weeks 1 and 2. Week 3 we pretty much got [...]
New Year
Well this is my first official blog post of 2011!!! I believe the last time I wrote I was getting ready to go home to CT for the holidays. My visit home was wonderful! I was able to see lots of friends and family and even got to experience a snowstorm in CT. I was [...]
Layers, cold weather and the holiday season
Well it is officially starting to get cold in eastern Kentucky! Last week was Thanksgiving and it was about 70 degrees out and this week I think the high was about 45, so a very drastic change in weather over the last week. So you would think that after working in housing last winter I [...]
Ohana means family
“Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten.”- From the Disney movie Lilo and Stitch. This quote seemed to be very appropriate for the events that have transpired in the past week. On Wednesday night I drove to Huntington, West Virginia to pick up my sister (Jess) and my best friend ( [...]
Changes
There have been a lot of changes going on within CAP and the volunteer house lately. One of the big ones is theexpansion of the Floyd Volunteer House. Right now the volunteers at Floyd just live in the downstairs part of the house and the upstairs is used for another mission organization to hold their [...]
Hot Weather and Weekend Adventures
These last few days in eastern Kentucky have been sweltering. I never knew how hard it was to work outside in 95 degree weather with humidity making it feel like 110 degrees. It’s been hard to get myself motivated in this weather because I feel like the sun just drains me of all energy. Luckily [...]
Time
Time sure has flown since I’ve been at CAP. It seems like just yesterday I was on a plane to Kentucky to begin my service with CAP. Now I’m two months away from the end of my service time. I think part of the reason why time seems to have flown is because we have been [...]
Busyness and Retreat
These last few weeks seem to have flown by extremely fast and they have also been pretty busy for me. Since it is getting closer to summer we are having lots of prospective volunteers visiting CAP, as well as our volunteer house. So for the last few weeks we seem to have had at least [...]
Bye bye WorkFest, hello YouthFest
WorkFest 2010 was a huge success: more than 400 college students served on 20 different jobsites throughout March, repairing homes, meeting the people of Appalachia and having a life-changing experience. Repeated over and over again during student reflection time was that students didnot want WorkFest to be an isolated time in their lives, but the [...]
John 3:16
The week after WorkFest has been a catch up week for Housing. We spent most of Monday driving around to all our sites and collecting all the tools and then inventoried everything we had. So the rest of Monday and all of Tuesday was spent cleaning up and straightening out our tool trailer, which is [...]
