New Hampshire

Hi everybody, this is Roby. I went to the New Hampshire trip with Jess, Michelle, Sarah FK, Sarah T and Ms. Young, and I totally loved it! We did a lot of things: we helped elderly people doing whatever they needed us to do, since most of them had phisical problems and were not able to do certain kinds of work; we went to a lower school and we spent time with the kids in first grade and kindergarten; we painted the windows of the church; we prepared soup to be delivered to people in need; and we helped clean up the location for a summer camp -the Circle Program- and get it ready for when the girls will come. My favorite day was when we went to the lower school. I liked staying with the kids, and they were so cute! Especially when they asked questions like "Do you have computers in Italy?" or "Is Italy in the United States?" It was nice to see that the kids enjoyed having us there, they loved having new people spending time with them. And also the teachers were glad to have someone helping, we made their day much easier.
Everywhere we went we could feel how people appreciated what we were doing. Pastor Fischer of the Hebron Church was the one who gave us the names of the elderly people to help, and he chose people who really needed us. For example, one day Jess, Michelle and I went to Pat, a woman with some phisical problem (She didn't say what she had, but it was hard to walk for her). She lived alone, and our task that afternoon was to help her with grocery shopping and to bring the trash to the dump. A little detail: she had the trash of the whole winter in her basement; it was so much that it entirely filled Jess' pick-up truck! She really appreciated our help; probably if we didn't do it she would have collected also the rubbish of the whole summer in her basement! She even sent us a nice card with a letter to thank us. It was very satisfactory to see that our help made other people happier. They even wrote an article on the local paper about our trip there.
Besides work, we also had a lot of fun. We were staying at Michelle's house, right on the lake. We had no TV or Internet, but we didn't miss them at all, because we had so much fun playing every kind of games or just hanging out. We divided all tasks fairly, which made things even easier. And Ms. Young was one of us, both in working and having fun, and it was lovely to have her as our chaperone.