Today was the first day working with the Safe Haven Children, at the farm. We arrived at 8:00 am, but they didn’t come till about 9:00am. It started to get so hot, I was lucky that I decided to take my allergy medicine before I came. Today we were lucky and we didn’t have to work that hard, my duties were to take one of the children and start to pick weeds with them. For me I saw that as an opportunity to get to know the girl will be working with for the next few months, so I started to ask her questions about what she likes to do and things like that so she would become comfortable with me. She started to complain how hot she was, so I tried to change the subject, so she would keep working but it didn’t work. After we were done with the weeds we started to pick different types of peppers and put them in a box for the children, which they were able to sort out who gets what later. After we picked them all the children were able to go into the shade and have something cool to drink, then they left and we will do it all over again next week !!!!
When the children left we had to move the garden boxes from the green house to a new location because they will add a water line to help whatever seeds we decide to plant in them grow better. When we moved that we had the option to leave, but we all sat and talked about what we thought and what we could have done better , basically whatever was on our mind about what went on today. I never really thought about some of the different comments some of my classmates made, like coming to the garden with us every Wednesday for them might be an escape from their everyday life and that even though they may not smile while there out there in the hot sun, deep down they really do enjoy it, and I look forward to gardening with them again next Wednesday !!!!
Today was the first day working with the Safe Haven Children, at the farm. We arrived at 8:00 am, but they didn’t come till about 9:00am. It started to get so hot, I was lucky that I decided to take my allergy medicine before I came. Today we were lucky and we didn’t have to work that hard, my duties were to take one of the children and start to pick weeds with them. For me I saw that as an opportunity to get to know the girl will be working with for the next few months, so I started to ask her questions about what she likes to do and things like that so she would become comfortable with me. She started to complain how hot she was, so I tried to change the subject, so she would keep working but it didn’t work. After we were done with the weeds we started to pick different types of peppers and put them in a box for the children, which they were able to sort out who gets what later. After we picked them all the children were able to go into the shade and have something cool to drink, then they left and we will do it all over again next week !!!! 
When the children left we had to move the garden boxes from the green house to a new location because they will add a water line to help whatever seeds we decide to plant in them grow better. When we moved that we had the option to leave, but we all sat and talked about what we thought and what we could have done better , basically whatever was on our mind about what went on today. I never really thought about some of the different comments some of my classmates made, like coming to the garden with us every Wednesday for them might be an escape from their everyday life and that even though they may not smile while there out there in the hot sun, deep down they really do enjoy it, and I look forward to gardening with them again next Wednesday !!!!
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