JessicaKirk

Kirk, Jessica

3-11-09

Alternative Spring Break in Nashville

Day Five

Today I spent another day in the kitchen at the Nashville Rescue Mission. I like working in the kitchen because you have more one on one contact with the people that work and visit the mission which is probably the most rewarding aspect of the mission. There are some real characters there like the a guy named Donnie who even gave is his address so we could write to him and send him some picture of the mountains and rivers of West Virginia.

I really like working at the Nashville Rescue Mission because almost everyone that you get to work with is apart of the program that the mission offers or at one point was a participant. This surprised me a little because I was expecting them to be different; I wasn't expecting to meet some of the people that I did there. One man became homeless because his business had went under and even used to be a marine

The only frustrating thing that happened today was that as soon as it was time for us to start serving the food at lunch to the transients the same church group from the other day showed up and was ready to serve. One of the workers in the kitchen even told us to move so they could serve, but luckily Alex came to our rescue and told them that it wasn't going to happen cause we had been waiting all week to serve and we wasn't going to give it up again.

As far as a story goes I cant really think of any except for one that just sort of made me laugh. As I was in the serving line this one man who was at least 50 to 60 years old said something that struck me as odd. The man said "How ya doing there shorty", which is fine with me, but shorty definitely wasn't from his generation which made me laugh, and I replied "I'm good but Im not short" in a joking manner. Everyone who was around and heard it and even the man laughed. It was just something that I found was odd and funny at the same time.