Irish Fest and KEEP GREATER MILWAUKEE BEAUTIFUL
The boys posing with Emily Brown
This week the boys and I went to Irish Fest and we also worked with KEEP
GREATER MILWAUKEE BEAUTIFUL. The boys had a great time volunteering at the
GreenWish Village on the Summer Fest Grounds.
CESAR volunteered on the games. Emily Brown, the Education Program Manager
for Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful, had nothing but complements about
the boys and how mature they seemed. The boys even worked in the rain!
They loved working with the games as well as playing a few of their own.
Emily taught the boys that you do not have to throw away all you garbage
you can have fun with it. After learning the rules of the games the boys
were all set to go to work.
On the golf course game the boys used old coffee cans to make optical
coursed for adults and kids and on the recycling pond players had to find
the metal in the pond.
The boys also got the chance to go around to the other gaming area
activities, two of their favorites were making a radio and lights work
just by pedaling a bicycle and guessing what items were recycled to make
what. They were surprised to learn that you could make a fleas sweat shirt
out of glass!
After we were finished volunteering for the day the boys got a chance to
listen to Irish music were they made their own beats to fit hip hop and we
watched a bag pipe performances. Which really shocked them a bit one boy
even said, "Look Teneisha they're wearing skirts!" I of course explained the
kilts to them before hand but it didn't stop them from saying, "It still
looks like a skirt to me."
We had a great time and Emily loved the boys and we have agreed to
volunteer with GreenWish again in the future.
Volunteering
An image of the golf course...
Bagpipe players
'Fishing' for metal
Listening to Irish music
The recycling pond...
Pizza concludes a full day!