My experience was truly captivating as soon as I left I felt deep dread not wanting to go to the Wild West of the Appalachian mountains afraid of not having a phone and contact with close friends and family, however. As soon as we arrived I felt a deep connection with the area as it was both beautiful and dangerous at the same time. Through the course of my stay I would learn more and more about the area and the people in it. Although the service was boring and stressful at times it would lead to a great satisfaction that I helped somebody today. In the end I really did love this trip and look forward to the many adventures I may partake in my senior year.

We went to learn about the underground railroad from a very talkative lady. Then we helped out at the food bank and that was a blast. Finally, we went to a very weird museum that I definitely will never be going back too.

We had an early morning arrival at around 9, and we got right to bagging pears. We had a short break half way through and then we filled food bags for kids in need.

I was the station leader, and my station was skits as we encouraged the freshman to be brave and have good and meaningful skits. There were some ups and downs, but the best skit was when Elsa battled the lunch ladies. The lunch ladies won and Gilmour's food was restored. 

We attended the challenge and were welcomed with a full spread of food including bagels and doughnuts. Soon after, we embarked on our team's journey as we set up stations along the national park trail. These stations had snacks and drinks for the bikers. We sat there for probably about 4 hours and then returned to the original meetup spot. At this spot, we were each given ice cream and pizza—the end.

It was the first time I had been there and wondered what was inside the food bank. Well now, I know but we will get to that later first off the documentary was very interesting because it talked about how people have food but not really good healthy food. They may just be eating nonsense like frozen pizza. Obesity comes along with food problems I found that very intriguing. Now for the food bank we arrived there around 6:10 and started right away I boxed the cereal. We all added our food into boxes which were given away to families in need after that was done we cleaned up and went home. Some things I could have done better were maybe unboxing my food better I ripped up a few bags on accident. Something I did well was keeping up I always was there to put my food inside the box thanks to J.J unpacking stuff for me.