With 10 other Georgetown (DC) students and 12 Holy Cross (MA) students, I'll be living and working at the Wheeling Soup Kitchen all week. Today we got a lot accomplished; even though the soup kitchen doesn't feed people on Sundays, we were able to clean out/reorganize the entire pantry! You should have seen how dirty and messy it was before we went to work! It took most of the afternoon, but it felt great to be able to contribute in a concrete way.
Tomorrow the week officially begins, and we'll be feeding the poor from 11am-1pm every weekday. I can't wait to serve and talk with all the people that come to the kitchen! Hopefully I'll also be learning a lot more about the history of Wheeling, the story of the coal-mining industry, and the various types of people that live in the area known as Appalchia. I wouldn't want to be spending my break any other way!
