Thanks for visiting my blog. I'm hoping that this blog will serve as an easier way (compared to email) to keep you, my Newton Community, updated on my year of service in Kansas City. Please feel free to comment on any of the posts I leave. I'd love to hear feedback from all of you -- questions would be great!
Last Sunday, my family moved me into a fairly toasty MVS house. The toasty-ness was, unfortunately, due to a lack of electricity in the house because of an electrical fire in one of the walls that occurred the week before I moved up to Kansas City. I'm happy to say that we have been with electricity this entire week! There is some damage in two of the rooms that are needed for other MVSers. Some of the walls in these rooms were somewhat demolished in order for firefighters to find and extinguish the fire. There have been contractors here assessing the house and both rooms are supposed to be back to normal within the next three weeks. In the mean time, one of my house-mates, Brian, will be living in a downstairs office which we have made into a bedroom and Rachel, another house-mate, will be rooming with me.
Despite a few transitional set backs due to the fire, my first week in the house has been great! I'll be living with four other young adults this year. Brian and Natalie will be working at Catholic Charities as Case Workers and my other two house-mates, Rachel and John will be working in gardening positions through branches of the same agency. I started work on Monday with the Migrant Farmworkers Project (MFP). Because this last week was only my first week, I did quite a bit of shadowing and taking in new information. Since most of the services we offer at MFP begin this week, I've decided to wait until my next post to give more details about what my position actually entails. Although I will say that I'm ecstatic to have already had multiple opportunities to use Spanish! I wrote an article for the September issue of Connections, so please look for that if you're interested!
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