PradipAdhikari

Journal

3rd Day

Pradip Adhikari

09/03/09

Sally Campbell


Nashville Rescue Mission.

Our day started at 7:30 in the morning today. Both of the groups were to work with the same agency for today. We went to the Nashville Rescue Mission. We got to meet a very good gentleman named Billy, who gave us the tour around the Nashville rescue mission. He talked about the number of homeless people living over there in the Nashville rescue Mission. He also went on talking about the different kinds of the services provided to the homeless people over there. We got to know that peoples over there were allowed to take some classes so that they can get a GED degree. There were pictures of people who had graduated from there. We got to know that almost 75 to 85 percent of the homeless people in the Nashville were provided some kind of service by the Nashville Rescue Mission. As we went on to the tour around the Nashville Rescue Mission we got to see the way homeless people lived there, we saw the rooms for those people. Rooms over there were very good and managed. We also saw the recreation places for the homeless people; they had game room, computer room, TV lounge for the homeless people. They also had some rules set up in those places. We also got to meet the head coordinator of the Nashville Rescue Mission. He was very good person and he thanked all of us for coming over there to help homeless people. After that we were divided into different groups to work on different places. I was on the group were we organized different kinds of donation from other peoples. We sorted out different clothing, it was fun working together. We had a good time over there as we were working on a group. Actually we were learning something over there, we were learning to work on team and got to learn how even hard works could be easier if it was done with a team effort. We were also learning to be responsible for the society. We did also meet different peoples over there who were very good who always thanked us for our help. All of us were pretty happy that we were doing something for those homeless people as even a small effort from us meant something for them. We worked there till 3:30 over there and came back to our motel.

We went to the Campus for the Human Development at 7:00 PM. We watched a movie “Stomp the Yard” over there. It was a very good movie and we had fun watching that movie. We did also meet some more homeless people over there. Every one of us had a very good time over there. It was a good experience spending some good time with homeless people. We got back to our motel as 9:00 PM. Overall it was a very good day with some great time with the homeless people.