JenniferHellems

Jennifer Hellems

SOWK 350

Dr. Campbell

Journal Entry 5

Wednesday March 11, 2009

Today we went back to the Nashville Rescue Mission and continued working on the different tasks that we had been working on all week. We worked, had lunch, went back to work, then they had a special dinner for us.

We started the day with part of us working in the kitchen, some of us working with the people in the GED program, and the rest of us went downstairs. Downstairs we worked in the pantry and sorted out boxes and boxes of food. We separated them all and put them on shelves so they would be easy to access. After we completed that task we went into the basement area and four of us went to bins of sheets and sorted all of the sheets pulling out any white ones we could find. Then we put them in trash bags 25 in each. After that we put all of the rest of the sheets back into the bin. After we finished that we went to lunch.

After lunch we went back downstairs and found that we needed to go back to the bins and go through the sheets and fold them and separate them to be washed. That took the rest of the evening. I kept switching back and forth between sheets and sorting boxes of things such as soap, shampoo, conditioner, and many, many other items.

After we finished all the assigned tasks we went back upstairs and waited for our special dinner. The guys who were in charge of our activities this week were so appreciative and said that we worked harder than most groups that are sent to them so they wanted to make us a special dinner. I really enjoyed it, it was so good. We talked to them and thanked them for everything and they thanked us in return.

The only thing I got frustrated about was when one guy brought us to the sheet bin and told us what to do then after we finished it another guy came along and told us to do something completely different. Actually that happedned a lot this week; apparently the guys all had different ideas as to what should be going, on and what things should look like, and how they should be done. Other than that I enjoyed my last day at the Nashville Rescue Mission and I was really happy that they enjoyed us being there. It really made me feel like I had done something for someone and it made me happy.