Day 5
We started our day at LSG
helping them deliver bags of rice to about 10 refugee families. We visited with
Augustine, a recent refugee that has been here for about 3 months. He was from
Congo. After we finished delivering rice we just relaxed a little since it was
cooler and was raining. We went to Inspire at 4pm. The students had the choice
to play basketball or participate in art, which was origami. I personally
choose origami which was really fun. During the exploration lesson, we
discussed what is and isn't okay to say to a person experiencing homelessness.
Megan, Cecilia and Chris led the lesson in which this was discussed, and also
encouraged the students to come up with good ways to help people experiencing
homelessness. We had the students put together little care packages that
included some simple toiletries. It was a busy last day with the students, overall
the week with them was great and I'm sure that we will miss them all very much.
Day 6
A big Thanks to KIND bars for their donation to our group. These bars were #kindaawesome and you should definitely #givekindatry
Today, our last full day in Atlanta was
our free day. We said our goodbyes to everyone at LSG and Inspire yesterday. We
started our day going to the Atlanta Zoo which was awesome! We saw all kinds of
cool animals including baby panda bears, they are so cute! After we all
finished walking around the zoo we met up with Dan, Annie's good friend that
works at Spelman College. Dan arranged a tour of the campus for us as well as
provided us with an awesome lunch in the cafeteria. Once the tour was over we
met back up with Dan and Annie and Annie showed us the houses that she has here
in Georgia. We decide to head back to Rehoboth where we are staying and relax
before our early flight home. We are still debating on whether to stay up the
whole night or try and get some sleep before we need to leave to the airport.
It was definitely a great week in Atlanta Georgia; filled with service and fun
and for sure a trip of a lifetime.
-Sami
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