Hello! Cathy here tonight. Today on the work site, we did interior
insulation and finished all the gaps and cracks around the windows. We
were expected to take all week to do the insulation, but we finished
with an hour to spare today! We need to wait for our work to be
inspected before moving on to drywall
so we may have a break from the construction tomorrow. I really enjoyed
the productivity and how our group works together. Sam and I had a
really nice rhythm to put up the interior insulation, and it's good to
see how our group, in general, anticipates each others' needs.
We also had the chance to walk to the house today and see the neighborhood around it. It was sad to see how much litter there was on the streets. However, there were many beautiful houses nearby as well!
For lunch, we had oatmeal energy bites as dessert. I made about three or four dozen last night, and only one remained by the end! Hopefully, I get the chance to make more for tomorrow. Afterwards, we went door-to-door with Anna Franz to post flyers about a neighborhood watch meeting and resources from OWB to repair the neighborhood. It was so nice to get to walk and enjoy the sunshine! Again, we were amazed at how fast we worked and had to print more flyers.
When we got back, I was happily surprised to see Urban University was set up at the church. Ironically, I was also wearing my Urban University shirt today! It was so much fun to cook dinner in the kitchen and have some students from previous programs ask what we were making and to see their masterpiece dinner and desserts.
For dinner, our guests were Candace Battles, Anna Franz, and Cathy Hornick. We learned a lot about the way the neighborhood perceives Gannon. To summarize a story from Johnny, if someone steals Milky Way bars and is caught, the next time a Milky Way bar is stolen, they will blame it on the person who used to steal Milky Way bars, even if that person has reformed. In the same way, the poor behavior of some Gannon students has made the community blame other poor behavior on Gannon students today, even when it is not always Gannon students.
It was a great day of work and learning about the community, and I look forward to it again tomorrow!
We also had the chance to walk to the house today and see the neighborhood around it. It was sad to see how much litter there was on the streets. However, there were many beautiful houses nearby as well!
For lunch, we had oatmeal energy bites as dessert. I made about three or four dozen last night, and only one remained by the end! Hopefully, I get the chance to make more for tomorrow. Afterwards, we went door-to-door with Anna Franz to post flyers about a neighborhood watch meeting and resources from OWB to repair the neighborhood. It was so nice to get to walk and enjoy the sunshine! Again, we were amazed at how fast we worked and had to print more flyers.
When we got back, I was happily surprised to see Urban University was set up at the church. Ironically, I was also wearing my Urban University shirt today! It was so much fun to cook dinner in the kitchen and have some students from previous programs ask what we were making and to see their masterpiece dinner and desserts.
For dinner, our guests were Candace Battles, Anna Franz, and Cathy Hornick. We learned a lot about the way the neighborhood perceives Gannon. To summarize a story from Johnny, if someone steals Milky Way bars and is caught, the next time a Milky Way bar is stolen, they will blame it on the person who used to steal Milky Way bars, even if that person has reformed. In the same way, the poor behavior of some Gannon students has made the community blame other poor behavior on Gannon students today, even when it is not always Gannon students.
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