I've been horrible at keeping this up to date! Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I'll start by posting a few...
Landon and Nick on zoo field trip day a few weeks ago.
Markell, Jordon, Mr. Justin, and Ollie pretending they are in a photo shoot for their rock band.
Me, Joe, Kellie, and Kate two weekends ago at the beach! It rained the whole time, but we had a blast. We still built a great sandcastle and ate seafood.
Jarvis and I after picking up trash. This pretty much explains how trash pick up went.
This is just too funny not to post.We loved the childrens' museum last week!
Nya(obviously) with the life-size Scrabble board at the childrens' museum. We wanted to play, but ran out of time.
We went to Cary, MS on Saturday to visit Cary Christian Center. Cary is in the Delta, which is the poorest area of the nation. The median income is $16,000 I believe. (If any of you interns read this and remember otherwise, let me know.)The Cary Christian center offers a variety of ministries to help the people in the area, and has been in existence for 40 years. I would lovvvveeee to bring a group down here from our church to work for a week. Here's their website. http://www.carychristiancenter.org/
Isn't it lovely? It's an old plantation home turned museum that we visited on our way back to Jackson. It was weird to go from looking at trailers and houses that are falling in around the people who live in them to this within just a few minutes.
Us girls being ladylike. Pardon me. Would you have any grey poupon?
Thad, Joe, and Ontario being themselves.
Ollie and his horses. He LOVES horses more than anything and draws them every chance he gets. He was supposed to be drawing a picture of something that reminds him of change to go with the song we were singing. He drew a foal and then a full grown horse. I'm not sure which is which in the photo.
The 5th and 6th grade learned the song "Change" by Taylor Swift for chapel and performed it today. I took this picture of them yesterday with some of the lyrics from the song. It says "These walls that they put up to hold us back with fall down". The song goes on to say, "It's a revolution. The time will come when we will finally win. We'll sing hallelujah." I think it fits these kids well: lots of movers and shakers in this crew. They are going to continue to break down the walls we've been trying to break down this summer; especially the walls that racism has built and that Grandpa Perkins has dedicated his life to breaking down. If he was writing this post, well, it would be worded much more clearly and concisely, but also he would probably throw in, "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal". You get the idea. Anyhow, the kids did a great job, and I hope the song actually meant something to them, or that it will someday.
Things are going well. This is actually the last week of camp. I can't believe it. We only have two days left with the kids. Saying goodbye will be horrible. I'm crying just thinking about it. I'm hoping I can come back the first weekend in October to visit. I have so much more to write, but us girls are having a slumber party in our living room and we're about to start the movie.
Love,
LH
