Goodbye Maryland

Due to a "goof-up" on my part, the Wisconsin team is headed out one day later than the Maryland team...who left this morning about 7:30am.  The BONUS for us is that we have one more day here and it should be more of a "down-time" day where the team members can spend more time with the kids or take them to the store, etc.  We saw the Maryland team off on the bus, then went to do KP (kitchen patrol)...washing dishes and cleaning up the dining area.  We made sure that the courtyard was back to normal and all decorations were taken down.

After all cleaning was done, we took a walk down to the farm to check out the cement that the men had been working on yesterday.  They got 1/2 of the greenhouse done and asked me to take a picture of it now and then after the Alabama team (who was coming in later this afternoon) finished their half to see which one ended up better.

The MD/WVA/WI half of cement work for the greenhouse.

From Left to right: Bekah, Kelsey, Alina, Bob, Nate, Lane, and Mark examining the cement job

 Since the hydroponics area is right next to the greenhouse, we went there next so that Lane could explain to us how it all worked.  Basically the waste from the tilapia farm is sent to these hydroponics raceways which will fertilize the plants that float on them.  I believe Trey made the first few floating pods, but as we were walking to the farm, we passed by Wade with his 2 daughters who had just planted another pod of 72 carrots!

Lane next to the hydroponics raceway

The plants in the raceway

Wade with his 2 daughters and John Will (a male volunteer) carrying carrots to the raceway

Mark took quite a few boys to the store today for some snacks and was surprised by the boys who didn't open their bag of chips because they wanted to take them back to all of the boys to share.

Later this afternoon the Alabama team came in.  They seem so nice, although their accent is SO STRONG.  This particular group comes from the same town as Wade, so he knew many of the members on this team.  He let them know that they had some hard work ahead of them with laying cement and trying to do as good of a job as the MD/WVA/WI team did.