As promised this week I spent more time at my desk. Yet, due to the nature of my fellowship, I would leave my desk routinely from 11-1pm to help prepare lunch with the week’s campers. Some of the recipes stayed the same allowing for better taste very important. This week the campers from my group were very helpful in cleaning up, helping out, and getting creative with preparing fresh limeade, lemonade, and even agua de piña with leftover ingredients.
The majority of the week was spent on inputting data onto Excel, creating pie charts and bar graphs, and organizing a format on how to compare survey results from the beginning of the week to the end of the week.

In the middle of all of this, I experienced a fall during biking after my bike refused to brake downhill near COSI. Thankfully my injury was minimal but my knee is all shades of purple right now. Next week I will not be getting on a bike during our Weekly Outdoor Adventure.
On Thursday, I was able to pull together insight’s from our Guest Speaker, Natalie Parscher on communications, and a graphic designer and marketing expert at the Dominican Sisters of Peace. By Friday morning, I was able to launch the Martin de Porres Instagram page, highly needed after being hacked. The insight has been beneficial in understanding my target audience, understanding donors but also spreading the message of the Center and Dominican Sisters of Peace as a non-violence organization.

One last thing, the Franklin County’s Sheriff’s Office Community Liason team paid our campers a visit on Monday afternoon. We learned the difference between a sheriff, a sheriff deputy, and a police officer (one visited us last week). As part of engaging with “the law” those 15 and older were able to try the “drunk driving stimulation” and “distracted driving stimulation”, both were incredibly hard and more difficult than actual driving. A couple of “troublemakers” were handcuffed and we “laughed” about it but stressed the importance of being arrested is not a joking manner. The younger campers got to meet two therapy dogs that the sheriff’s department uses if after an incident the victims/survivors need a moment or comfort (I was not interested, as I only like looking at dogs from afar).

Until next week when the Mariposas visit us!

P.S. Check out our first IG post at martindeporrescenter_cbus