Best Buddies Spring Break 2009 has started off to a great success! After a great car ride, despite the rain, we arrived at the Emerald Youth Foundation community center to play games, hang out, and order pizza. We had a fun night of playing basketball and hanging out.
On Sunday, we hung out in the community center, went grocery shopping, and then traveled to Jefferson City, Tennessee to Carson Newman College. There, we joined in with Carson Neman's Best Buddies chapter for a basketball tournament! Our teams, the Heat and the Spurs, were very successful. We were joined by Carson Neweman's varsity basketball team!
After the basketball tournament, we drove back to Knoxville and went to the Vanderbilt vs. University of Tennessee women's basketball game! It was a really cool experience, with thousands of people there to cheer on the lady vols. We had a great time cheering on the commodores, although we lost :( We came right back to the community center after a long day, got on our air mattresses, and went to sleep!
Today, Monday, we had an exciting day of volunteering! We started just before 8am at the Beardsley farm, a place that grows edible plants for people in the surrounding community to use for food supplies. We started by building a fire to keep us warm, and then we used wheel-barrows to move loads of dirt down to a few plots to turn them into edible gardens. After we did four gardens, we put up a fence so that ducks would have an area to be safe in around a pond. We also worked on digging out areas in the parking lot of the CAC (Community Action Council) to make those into edible plant gardens as well! In just one morning, we have done so much good for the community. We had lunch at CAC and now we are back relaxing at the community center. This afternoon we will volunteer at the youth afterschool program and we are cooking an Italian dinner tonight!
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