At the End of the Day

Today was my last day in the office. I will have camp for the next days and then I will be heading back home on Saturday. It was a bittersweet day. On one hand I am very glad to be returning home. I have been away for 10 weeks and have only been home for two short weekends in that time. I am also looking forward to not living out a suitcase and not changing houses every week! It will be good to be home :) On the other hand, I am sad to be leaving the friends I have made and the work that I have been able to be a part of this summer. This internship has given me the opportunity to do things that I might never have been able to do and to meet people that I might have never met.
This week I have been continuing to help with the sponsor gift processing. We have hit the end of the gift deadline and with that we have got a huge wave of the remaining gifts coming in. This week I have done a lot of tagging them when they come and I have also helped in the warehouse bagging the gifts up and putting them in boxes to get ready to send to Haiti. I have also had the opportunity to work volunteers which is something that I have wanted to do all summer and have not had very many opportunities to do so. On Monday I trained and supervised a group of teens on the gift bagging process and on Tuesday I supervised a group of older women who had bagged the gifts before and didn’t need to be trained. Since I was at the warehouse those days I also got to talk to many people who came by to drop donations off. There are things for all ages to do at Lifeline!
Tomorrow I am heading back to the same camp I helped out with earlier this summer. This time I it will be a short camp because I will be working with a younger group of kids. I will be there for two days and will talk to the kids about Lifeline and missions and will supervise food baggings that will be happening.
in some ways this summer has flown by; it seems that it couldn’t possibly have been 10 weeks. But when I think about all that I have see and experienced I can believe it has been this long. When you are doing something that you love to do you don’t really keep track of time. I have defiantly learned that I want to work at a place where my work really matters. There will stress in any job (its just a matter of what kind and how much). But at the end of the day I want to know that it all was worth it because the work that we are doing really impacts lives.