So now that I am home, I thought that I would add the rest of my pictures from the last project. Unfortunately, I was not allowed to take any pictures of the kids at Operation Purple Camp, so I did not take any pictures of the camp.
Lauren and Charlotte- it took two people to get around this really big tree!
We did the Mile Incline in Manitou Springs, CO, which was really neat.
It took me two hours to get up...
The view was well worth it though!
You can even see Kansas!
Lydia, me, Lauren and KC at the top of the incline
We went to Red Rocks Ampitheater and saw Death Cab for Cutie. It was an amazing concert!
And this concert concludes my journeys in AmeriCorps. I am now starting to get ready for college in the fall and will be leaving August 27th to go up to Maine!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Back in Denver
Now I am back from Operation Camp and am almost done with AmeriCorps- 5 days left! Now, I am just packing and getting ready to go home. I am taking the train back, so I will be back this Saturday and am totally excited!
Today, we did a service project, which included pulling invasive species all morning! It was hard work and the last project in AmeriCorps.
Today, we did a service project, which included pulling invasive species all morning! It was hard work and the last project in AmeriCorps.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Operation Purple!
For our last project, Fire Four is reunited and we will be going to Larkspur, CO tomorrow. We are working with Outer Edge Performance, which is an outdoor program, and one of the programs it runs is Operation Purple camp. We have had two weeks of training with the staff at OEP. The training was a lot of working on our skills and how we can be great leaders. We also learned a lot of fun games to play. At OP, we are working at a summer camp for kids whos parents have been deployed. This camp is there to provide a week away from their difficult lives, where the child may be taking on adult responsibilities with one parent gone. We, as AmeriCorps members and OEP staff have come together to be camp counselors for these kids. The first week of camp starts tomorrow- there are three weeks. The kids get to do fun activities, such as white water rafting, biking, horse-back riding, rock climbing and hiking. Then, there is a ten day teen leadership camp, which will be much of the same activities, except that the teens get to do a service project of their own after the camp is through.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Crown King
So now that we are back from Crown King, I thought I would upload some pictures. But of course I ended up putting them online in backwards order of what really happened. So they start when we came back from Crown King and ends in the beginning! oops!!
the Boulder Tea House was imported from another country piece by piece to the US
Back in Colorado- at the Boulder Tea House with Julia and Becky
We went to Arches in Utah on our spike travel back to Denver
The other team who was with us in Crown King
Doug, Walker, Ruthie, Jen, Stephen, Charlotte, SJ and Lauren
Charlotte (my new team leader), Katie, Jen and me
Delicate arch
Trevor, Arden, Jack, Mike and Lauren
Double arch
this is called balanced rock, which I would say makes perfect sense!
wedding picture at Arches!
My squad and I were always in charge of making sure Rescue One was doing okay
looking out from our cabin
My team!
In back- me, Leia, Arden and Trevor
In front- Jack, Mike, Katie, Aubbi and Lauren
sunset at lookout point
Lauren, me, Aubbi and Arden in front of an old firetruck near the mine.
Arden, me, Lauren and Aubbi decided to see if we could make a shadow word
Arden, Aubbi and I went into a mine which was really cool.
Aubbi and me venturing into a mine
me, Aubbi and Arden
an old fire truck we found
Charlotte and Jack trying to fly a kite!
the trees are all burnt from the Lane Two fire last year
left to right- Lauren, Aubbi, me, Katie
a pretty lake at the top of the mountain in Crown King
Walker and Stephen at a great lookout at Red Rocks in Sedona.
the Red Rocks in Sedona
At the Grand Canyon- Luckily the next day it was nice and warm and we could see the canyon
Lookout tower
Looking out over the Grand Canyon
Doug is about to jump off the edge of the Grand Canyon!
There really was nothing to see because of the fog and man was it cold and snowy!
it was awesome to see nothing. It looked like the world ended at the edge
the Grand Canyon the night we first arrived
our wonderful nomex for work (yellow shirts and green pants) and complete with helmets, glasses, gloves and steel toe boots
the awesome bright yellow chipper where we chipped all of our cut brush. We ended up clearing 14.6 acres by the end of our time in Crown King!!
One day we decided to go for a hike and ended up at this rock, which looked like it was from the Lion King.
the kitchen in our cabin
There were four of us sleeping in the same room. Arden slept in the little room in the back.
Leia and I lucked out because we got the bed, while Lauren got the cot and Arden had a little closed in closet-like area
the Boulder Tea House was imported from another country piece by piece to the US
Back in Colorado- at the Boulder Tea House with Julia and Becky
We went to Arches in Utah on our spike travel back to Denver
The other team who was with us in Crown King
Doug, Walker, Ruthie, Jen, Stephen, Charlotte, SJ and Lauren
Charlotte (my new team leader), Katie, Jen and me
Delicate arch
Trevor, Arden, Jack, Mike and Lauren
Double arch
this is called balanced rock, which I would say makes perfect sense!
wedding picture at Arches!
My squad and I were always in charge of making sure Rescue One was doing okay
looking out from our cabin
My team!
In back- me, Leia, Arden and Trevor
In front- Jack, Mike, Katie, Aubbi and Lauren
sunset at lookout point
Lauren, me, Aubbi and Arden in front of an old firetruck near the mine.
Arden, me, Lauren and Aubbi decided to see if we could make a shadow word
Arden, Aubbi and I went into a mine which was really cool.
Aubbi and me venturing into a mine
me, Aubbi and Arden
an old fire truck we found
Charlotte and Jack trying to fly a kite!
the trees are all burnt from the Lane Two fire last year
left to right- Lauren, Aubbi, me, Katie
a pretty lake at the top of the mountain in Crown King
Walker and Stephen at a great lookout at Red Rocks in Sedona.
the Red Rocks in Sedona
At the Grand Canyon- Luckily the next day it was nice and warm and we could see the canyon
Lookout tower
Looking out over the Grand Canyon
Doug is about to jump off the edge of the Grand Canyon!
There really was nothing to see because of the fog and man was it cold and snowy!
it was awesome to see nothing. It looked like the world ended at the edge
the Grand Canyon the night we first arrived
our wonderful nomex for work (yellow shirts and green pants) and complete with helmets, glasses, gloves and steel toe boots
the awesome bright yellow chipper where we chipped all of our cut brush. We ended up clearing 14.6 acres by the end of our time in Crown King!!
One day we decided to go for a hike and ended up at this rock, which looked like it was from the Lion King.
the kitchen in our cabin
There were four of us sleeping in the same room. Arden slept in the little room in the back.
Leia and I lucked out because we got the bed, while Lauren got the cot and Arden had a little closed in closet-like area
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