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May 24, 2007: Why Am I Always the Red Team?

1/24/2025

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Title image with a photo of a beaver lodge in a pond
Thursday, May 24, 2007

​At 8:30, we started raking pine needles away from the cabins. We spent the day raking, repairing picnic tables, and planting trees. We finished early at 3:30. 


I like planting trees. We planted ponderosa pine and larch. Toni said that only 1 in 25 plantings survive. Three of us planted about 60 trees in 2.5 hours. 

I saw a beaver home, heard a loon, and found out what yarrow looks like.

There was an entertaining no-talent show tonight.

I think this is one of the prettiest places I have been in Wyoming and Montana. I like the mountains and trees.

I’m in a group with Travis and Eli. Pippa and Declan are our leaders. Two more people are joining us in a week or so. We serve breakfast tomorrow.

Our team is red. (Of course! I’m never the blue team.) We named it Peapod (no reason). 

I won the drawing for a MCC patch.
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Jill Hames is a writer, musician, and ESL teacher who, at the age of four, said she wanted to learn every language in the world. She hasn’t managed that yet, but is proud to have taught herself enough Swahili to understand context from native speakers. She has a B.A. in Music and Spanish, a Masters in Library and Information Science, is TEFL.org 168-hour certified to teach English as a second language, and is working towards a Master of Divinity.

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