Well, another day has come and gone, and we really feel confident about moving around in the big city now! A slower morning, finally, gave the girls a chance to sleep in, miss the breakfast buffet and go out to forage for city food. Turns out that Einsteins has a place just down the street and I think they even found a Starbucks! Our girls are really getting resourceful, oui?
We were finally off to the Greater Chicago Food Depository for yet more training to feed the hungry! Today we were all assigned to work on an assembly line for a program that they call "Nutrition for Knowledge." We packed bags of nutritious snacks that are distributed to school kids on Friday afternoon, hoping to keep them in good food for the weekend. The school district was noticing that a drop in nutritious food over a couple of days was actually keeping the kids from retaining knowledge until later in the school week. So, if the kids have some apple sauce, soup, whole grain crackers, milk and other good food, they would be prepared to come back to class every Monday, ready to work.
Assembling these bags made 4 hours fly by, as we all made another group of friends from all over the country. Not only were there kids from a high school, and a group from a college in Nebraska (Sr. Bearss!), but we were working side by side with some pretty spunky senior citizens that were really a blast. Very inspiring, to say the least!
When we finished, we trained it back to town, over to Lincoln Park where we had a little dinner and went to see a production of "Million Dollar Quartet" at the Apollo Theater. Great show about Sun Records, Sam Phillips, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. I think the girls really were surprised at how much fun it was, and again, we spent the evening with lots of "seasoned citizens!"
A quick train ride and a brisk walk home, and now we're all geting ready for our 4:30am wake up call tomorrow. Breakfast shift at Inspiration Cafe...and afterward we make 80 bag lunches for their weekend friends. Stay tuned for detail and pictures...
Night-night!
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