After a weekend of being sick, but still getting to spend my time with doing something fun, I went back to work hoping to have lots of ambition.
I mostly do.
Monday was good, I put together the agenda for the YAC meeting that night. Getting some last minute details together for the Trick-or-Treating event they are doing. They are going trick-or-treating for non-perishable food items and donating them to the Community Center of Hope. They youth have also decided that for Christmas they want to donate to Heifer International. Their goal is to donate enough to give the Gift of the Gardener's Basket. If not then they will get shares of a flock of chicks, a llama, and a pig. This, however, is not all they will do. They will also give gifts to North Central Health Care Center. The November meeting will be for decided what exactly they will give.
Tuesday was productive because I had a meeting with one of the Spanish teachers at a local high school about my Spanish Reading Program. There are alot of details to work out, so we will see if this will even be possible. There is alot of red tape and hoops to jump through before we can get there. I hope this pans out.
Wednesday was the first day of an Activities Fair at the two middle schools here. It was good. There were alot of kids who seemed interested in 4-H and joining and took information home with them. Of course there were also the kids who just wanted the tattoos and pencils. Who would have thought that in a world of mechanical pencils and fun pens, ordinary pencils would be so attractive to middle schoolers. Huh. Not this girl! The second day of this fair was more revealing about the difference in ages. The sixth graders took the information just because it was there. Very few of them actually seemed interested in what was being offered. They ran me dry of pin and almost my pencils. The eighth graders seemed hardly interested at all. In fact very few of them walked through our little set up at all. The seventh graders were much more enthralled. They gave me hope that our YAC and our 4-H numbers might go up. All in all, it was a good experience and I'm glad I had the opportunity to spread the word. I was also able to do some networking while I was there. I met a very nice woman from the Girl Scouts, so I was thinking I might try to put together some sort of program partnering with them. Possibly for MLK day. We'll see.
My visit to the JDC was interesting this week. For starters, I had never had as many as I did that day. We worked on some origami. I admit that it is not the most necessary of life skills, but I told them that it taught patience, which was always a good life skill. The second thing was that while I was there, one of the kid's moms came to visit, and after a conversation with her the kid made a run for it. Out the door he went. This is entirely possible because I was on the shelter side. Shelter is not necessarily for detention. It is also for protection, they do not lock the kids in. I never heard if they found him or not. Hopefully they did. He was supposed to get out the next day. Well...that doesn't look like thats going to happen.
So my goal for this next week is to start putting together some ideas for something that we could do for MLK day. I've got to get my brain in gear. I have some ideas floating around. I suppose I should put them on paper before I forget...or maybe Tickld....I think I've got an addiction....
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