Monday morning and the fine weather that Vinnie and Greta so very nicely arranged with God has now decided to move elsewhere. There is a wee chill in the air that those wimps Olivier, Melissa and Liesl can't man up to!
We all pile into Ruby the Big Red Van and hit the road - where our first site is some wild turkeys doing their impression of a drunk peacock. Of course every time I tried to take a picture they would only show me their butts, stuppppsssssseeeeeee.
The team's first vocational visit saw same said wimps at the Yreka Public Broadcasting Station (where all the staff are volunteers) and me walking the streets with Ine, Diane and Vinnie (me love them).
We ended up in the county court house (on purpose people)where Ine got to see some law courts out of session. Very friendly officers with very big guns gave us a run down on Juvenile law in the county. Yup. I was impressed by the Art Deco architecture with original railings and tile, yes I am sad.
We then sashayed off to Siskiyu County, stopping off to snap Mount Shastna (one big old piece of rock, have lunch and giggle as we passed "Weed, California"... no really. oh yea, don't let me forget the rainbow array of eighteen wheelers we passed on the way.
A quick meeting to polish our presentations - and then a tri-top sandwhich fund raiser at the local high school where the white stuff is horseradish - not mayonnaise. There should be a health warning, sigh.
Interesting point - the seniors have to finish off a 36 hour project where they learn a new skill - and then display it for the community and defend it to the teachers. This is a real life skill that we Caribbean natives could teach our young adults - some really interesting projects, like one young man who killed, skinned and mounted a bear. No. Really.
gobble gobble gobble....:)
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