At each of the 80(ish) YouthWorks sites, t-shirts are for sale. These t-shirts are made by Youth Enterprise, a Christ-centered organization that employs youth in urban communities to help the youth build life and business skills. We got to work with four high school/college employees while helping to package orders to various YouthWorks sites. We broke into teams to two and tackled the large pile of invoices. With the majority of our work completed before our lunch break, we got to visit the shop where the t-shirts are screenprinted in the afternoon. (And we had a quick trip to DQ!) Our work was still finished a bit early so once we got back to our housing site, we walked around the park across the street and collected trash.
To be honest, packing orders of t-shirts was not the most excited task that one could do, but I was motivated to see how much fun our high schoolers had with the project. The pairs became competive about which team could package an order the quickest and I could see the kids opening up to one another and starting to build relationships as we worked.
Our daily schedule always included an post-dinner activity. That evening our activity was visiting the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
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| Cherry in a Spoon Sculpture |
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| The botanial center part was technically closed, but (before we knew the building was closed on Mondays) we entered through an unlooked door to see these and many other neat flowers and plants. |
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