The students are journaling as part of our Final Day Retreat. This gives me a chance to post the final blog entry, written last evening as we finished working and began our retreat.
June 29, 2007
Today is our final day of immersion. We all have mixed feelings about the experience coming to an end. We miss our cell phones, computers, snacks, and TVs, but we had such a blast working with St. Anthony’s that we will never forget these two weeks. This morning at St. Anthony’s we sat in a circle and reflected about why we wanted to do immersion. We did the same thing on our first day, and we wanted to compare the differences in our answer from two weeks ago, to today. For the most part we origionally wanted to do immersion to have a new experience and to help others. Now that we have completed it, we realize that our immersion experience was great because we got to understand all the people we met and not just serve them, but be with them. We also wrote letters to ourselves about this experience which St. Anthony’s will send to us in 6 months. After our morning work: half to Salvation Army and half to the Clothing Store, we had our last lunch at St. Anthony’s. In the afternoon we sat in a circle on a blanket with candels in the middle. We each lit a candle for someone we met in the past two weeks and said something they have taught us or something we remember about them. After this activity we all stayed there because Mary Anne Finch, the founder and directore of Care Through Touch, offered to give us each a back massage. It was AMAZING!! Then we all came back to our room because we are ordering dinner for tonight. It is a surprise and it will be here in about 15 minutes and we are all starving!
Katie Nolan
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