Day 5

Today is the last day of our trip! We started the morning bright and early with the wake up call at 6am. We then cleaned and said good bye to the convent! We got everyone into the vans and headed off to the first of two services today. Our first was at the Hill and Dales community center with clients on the autism spectrum. We created games and activities for them the days prior and brought them with us! We created games with a camping and nature theme! We had a taste testing game where they got to try sweet and salty foods, feed the bear game where they threw the balls into the cardboard bears mouth, a scavenger hunt with items found outside, rock painting, would you rather, and finally a trail mix craft! The first group was younger kids, they had a blast! We enjoyed learning about the system they use to teach the kids and how it is more like playing then traditional teaching! Then around 10:30 we were done at the community center and we were surprised with a scavenger hunt! Team 1 won, which was Madeline, Aubrey, Kalena, and Marin! They all got ice cream from McDonalds! (Don’t worry team 2 also got ice cream). After finishing the scavenger hunt and leftovers for lunch at Cleveland Park we were off to the next location! We traveled to another location owned by Hill and Dales also for clients on the autism spectrum but high school/middle school age! We brought some of the same games mentioned earlier and they also had lots of fun with them!! They also showed us some of their games and how they learn life skills, such as clocking in for work and taking peoples coffee orders. After saying goodbye to the clients and staff and the center we stopped at McDonald’s for team 1’s prize and to get fueled up for the long drive home! We are so grateful to Hills and Dales for letting us help them out and learn so much!