Friday... what is there to say about today? I'm disappointed to be going home tomorrow morning, although I did have some fun times today. We were assigned to painting the bunk-houses, which we spent the majority of the day on. As well at the end of the day, we (team Dino) were assigned to "The Dinner Challenge" which was actually one of the better learning experiences in terms of helping me to understand the region and something that the people struggled with a bit more. "The Dinner Challenge" essentially consisted of us being handed six boxes of food, of the type that were usually handed out to the local residents by a food pantry that Glenmary ran (each box was to feed 4-6 people for two weeks), and told to make dinner with anything we could find in it. Essentially we ended up taking all of the dinner-related ingredients from all of the boxes and making all of them on the same day... this mostly consisted of spaghetti (without sauce, which had to invent that from one can of whole tomatoes and another can of chopped ones), corn bread (which was excellent), a grab-bag of really unhealthy stuff for desert, plus some popcorn (we attempted to make microwaveable popcorn on the stove... (Glenmary doesn't have a microwave) after seeing what that stuff looks like... never again will I eat popcorn out of one of those bags). It is a bit disconcerting that we had to use all of the semi-reasonably-healthy food all in one meal... that doesn't bode well for the health of the Lewis County families that depend on that food.
Anyway, a couple of the groups already left a few minutes ago, and I need to get some shut-eye in order to prep myself for the 5:30 am wake-up we've gotta have tomorrow in order to get back to ND at a reasonable time (everybody has homework they want to finish up), so I'm signing out for now.
-Kevin
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