Last Friday we found out that we were going to have an addition to our team, Pete. We were really excited to have him join our team last minute and our family grew to 13 people! We have one of the largest teams on campus.
We were on the road by 8:30 in the morning on Saturday. We drove for about 7 hours, mostly through Kansas. You are not missing out if you have never been to Kansas. It was hours and hours of flat, brown nothing. However, we drove past a huge wind farm which was really cool. It was at least 5 miles of huge wind turbines everywhere. I was impressed.
We stopped in Salina, Kansas for the night. I got to watch the Ducks beat ASU at the hotel! It was quite the luxury to have cable tv.
There is another team doing a project in Little Rock, so we shared a cargo van with all of our stuff in it. The first day we got to drive the cargo van, so we could put three people in there. This made the other van much more comfortable because we could have 2 people in the bench seats instead of three. The second day, the other team got to drive the cargo van so we were really cramped. This made the 8 and a half hours go by a lot slower.
The drive on Sunday was much more exciting. It seemed as though the instant that we crossed over from Kansas to Oklahoma, there were beautiful rivers and trees everywhere. Then finally, on about hour 7, we crossed over into Arkansas! We were so excited to finally arrive. We met David, the camp director, and he showed us our wonderful little lakeside cabin. It was dark when we actually arrived but the next morning we got to see all the lovely trees and the awesome lake, equipped with canoes and paddle boats.
The house has three bedrooms and two baths. There is also a bonus room that three girls are sleeping in. I'm sharing a room with Christine and Brittney. We all love our little house and are adjusting to living in small quarters with a lot of people. The biggest issues have been the showers. Everyday a couple of people have to take cold showers. Other than that, it's been great. We've been eating a candlelit dinner every night. I'm beginning to love my AmeriCorps family very much!
Ferncliff Camp is a Presbyterian center but it's also a registered non-profit. They host a lot of summer camps for disadvantaged youth and house a lot of conferences for people with disabilities. They also have a disaster center where they make kits (school kits, cleaning kits, disaster kits) for people who are victims of disaster. The staff here is wonderful and the site is absolutely beautiful! This weekend I will try to catch up to date with all that we have done in the last week but here is a post to start it off.
Danielle
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