Mission Possible - Tuesday

(Pictures of the Grrrls!, working at Philabundance, and the Phillies game.)

Molly - The morning of our first work day was an interesting one. First we woke up at the wee hour of 7 o’clock. We barely made the train from Swathmore to center city Philly. Arriving in the city we split up into our smaller travel groups. Shelli’s group was the Grrrls! consisting of Coley, Cayla and Sarah (from Harpeth), Hannah C. and Molly (from DCPC). Each one of us had a super power (Hannah-glue, Molly-calming laugh, Sarah-beautiful hair that could also wrap around the ankles of bad guys, Cayla-disappering, Coley-super strong). After discussing our plan with the whole group we went on a prayer walk around Philly.

George - The first work day for me was really fun because I got to do a prayer walk which was like walking around the city of Philly and getting to know the area and seeing what most people do there and praying for different things around the whole city. (We stopped at the Jefferson University Hospital, the Liberty Bell, China Town, City Hall, and prayed beneath the flags on the way to the Art Museum.)

After the prayer walk we worked at Philabundance and packaged food for the hungry in large boxes as a team. (Some of us sorted ice cream and frozen goods. Others sorted boxes of crackers.) At Philabundance, they give out 10,000 pounds of food a week. We sorted more than that ourselves. About half of the ice cream ended up on Becca’s shirt. Right after that we got to go run up and down the steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Rocky Balboa style (Italian stallion).

I think the best part of the whole day was going to the Phillies game at their new stadium. Just seeing the excitement change from being outside the stadium to going in and seeing all the fans cheering there team on. We also had really good seats, when the first homerun was hit into the stands it was hit like 10 yards away from where we were sitting. It looked like the ball was in slow motion coming to us and then fell just short of were we were sitting. And some of our group got on the jumbo-tron, which was pretty neat. And then, there was the subway and train rides which were fun cause it was something new to experience cause we don’t have those in Davidson and Charlotte.