Day 3: 3/22
Happy Birthday, Leigh and Allison!
Another nice and sunny day! It is probably in the upper 70s F.
Today was the first day of community service! We started our day off at a parklet (my name for small parks), a traffic triangle. We planted trees in and around the park. When we completed that, we joined other groups at a community park. This park had a basketball court, swings, seesaws, and benches. We did a lot of planting and painting. Melanie and I painted the light poles with a fresh layer of black paint.
Kids from the local community (it was their park) were helping us out with the planting. It was very rewarding to help clean up the community park because you could see people who were being helped. Someone painted a Nike swoosh on the basketball court—oh a UniWatch moment—thanks Paul Lukas! It down poured towards the end of the day and we all hopped back onto the busses.
When we returned to our hostel, we had a reflection session with one of the girls from Hillel Uruguay. I told her I wasn’t happy when we just sit around and do nothing, but it is really fun and rewarding when we are out and about painting and planting.
A rewarding day!
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