MaiLy

Mai Ly

Social work

March 3th 2009

Entry for March 3th 2009

Today is Tuesday. We have only 1 day left to work in Nashville Rescue Mission. But today, I was not working like the previous days. We didn’t work in the basement in Nashville Rescue Mission. We worked in a campus in the Center for the Human development. That’s awesome. The work was so different from the work in the basement. We stayed in the campus at 9 o’clock. I stayed here so later one hour than yesterday. The way to go to the campus is so dirty and nasty. Perhaps, some guys took a pee in here. I saw a lot of black guys, I think they‘re homeless or unemployment. However, they’re so nice. They always say: Hi, Hello, where’re you from? How’re you doing? At the first time, I saw them, I felt so scared, but after they talked to us. I felt so excited to work today. The first woman we have seen is Wendy ( I guess her name ) She took us to go around campus. She was so nice. She introduced some of the rooms in the campus, example: the library, the gallery, the room where the artist can draw. She introduced about the history, the responsibility, and the number rooms of the center. After listening her introduction, we started to work. We must paint in the bathroom, another team cleaned the books. It was the first time; I tried to paint the wall. Before, I think it was so difficult. But when I started the work, it was not difficult like I thought. I paint the orange wall, the smell in the restroom was so bad, but I and my friends still work hard. Because we want to have a nice and clear restroom. After painting, my clothes was so dirty, my clothes had some of stains, but it’s okay. After 2 hours, we’ve done the wall and we had lunch. Luckily, we didn’t eat in Nashville Rescue Mission, we found another place to eat. Finally, we decided to eat at McDonald, it’s much better than the food in the Nashville Rescue Mission. After eating lunch, we went back to the campus and continued to work. We must to paint the floor with the other color. It’s yellow. When we finished the work, we clean the restroom again, it’s so clean. Some guys in here said thank you to us. I and my teammate was so happy. After that, we went out, and help my friends, we collected to the death trees. We must to put all of them into the trash bag, the weather today was so nice, it had wind and sunshine. My friends always use to the death tree to fight together. It was so funny, everybody looked so happy and excited to work, we took some pictures with the guys in the campus. That’s a great day

I had a experiment after working today. You can know about the people through the outside. Today I met some guys, they looked so violent and I felt so scared, I think they’re a bag guys. But it was not true, they’ re so nice and helpful. They wanted us to come back here . That’s great.

When we came back to the motel, we went to the Mall and the hotel near the Mall. The hotel looked so beautiful and huge, it’s look like a forest with have a lot of tree, a center with have a lot of restaurants. We went around the hotel, took pictures and went to the Mall, we finished at 10o’clock. That’s a great day. I like this day and I’ll remember all of these memories