KristinaChampe

Kristina Champe

Alternative Spring Break

Reflection Day 4

Today our group went to the Campus for Human Development. This place was amazing! I really enjoyed working at this place. When we got there we took a tour of the facility and it was so bright and cheerful, and the people there were so much more relaxed than at the Nashville Rescue Mission. They have a place called the “Guest House” and this place is where the police can bring people who are publicly intoxicated and they can sleep it off and sometimes get help for alcoholism. Ms. Wendy was so much fun and she was super nice to us. After we took a tour we split up into groups and Ms. Wendy let a few of us stay behind and talk with the women’s group that was coming in. We asked her if we could speak with the women since we had only been with the men. She was more than happy to let us. When the women’s group came up to the chapel room, there was another college group there and they were doing a mural together and we got to tear up paper and they glued them to the picture that they had drawn. During this time another girl and I were talking with one of the ladies and she was amazing. She told us that her and her husband was there together and that they had just celebrated their 36th anniversary last week. It was so sweet. We didn’t get to meet her husband because he was at the doctors’ office because he had pneumonia for the fourth time. Another girl in our group said she talked to a lady to was running from her abusive boyfriend. This was so sad. She said that this was the third or fourth time she had run away and the last time her boyfriend found her in another state. Also she said that she had gotten up at 2am this morning and walked 4 miles to get to the campus.

I really enjoyed working there and wish that I would have worked there all week. This place was so much fun and wasn’t hard work and I could actually stay awake and not be tired after lunch. It was great!