Last Friday Marcos and I drove up to the airport to pick up three of the four Service Adventure girls for this year. Tara and Ruth came in on time but we had a bit of a hold-up when Eva missed her plane in Chicago. Luckily she came in a few hours later and we got back to Philippi at 2am. Then on Saturday afternoon Hannah’s family drove her here and we had our whole group together! 
This past week has been mostly dedicated to orienting the girls to the Service Adventure program, the rules and routines of the house and generally getting to know the area and each other. After a few days of running around to the different job placements and learning about policy we took a break and spent half of a day at Audra State Park. Then on Saturday we got to go camping and hiking at Seneca Rocks.
At Seneca Rocks
Between all of the play was some hard work though. The faucet broke in the kitchen and the girls got a taste in home repair when they had to replace it. They learned that the hardest part of putting a new one in is getting the old faucet out. They also got the shovel the sheep barn up at the farm as a service project. They are really a hard working group of girls, I was very impressed. It has been so much fun getting to know these wonderful girls, and I can tell that this will be a really great year!
