On Monday
July 27th in the midst of our community week we had a day devoted to loving and
understanding our senses. Since the theme of community week was loving all of
god's creations we spent the day analyzing the importance of our own god given
senses.
In the
morning we volunteered with children at a local community center. We brought
games to play with them as well as recipes to make with them. Most of the games
had to do with throwing things and most of the recipes contained chocolate, so
needless to say our presence was a big smash amongst the kids.
Next we did
a program called “The Maze of Senses” which sounds like it should be a very
famous and strange looking abstract painting, but actually was more like a
blindfolded obstacle course. Blindfolded participants were guided with words by
a seeing partner. They had to be talked through a room filled with various
tasks like finding a gum ball in a box full of marbles or searching for a
bottle underneath chairs. This gave us a new perspective on what it is like to
be blind and what it means to help someone who is blind.
We then had
a staff program called “memories” which discussed why we remember what we do.
It also talked about memories through history and through our own pasts and how
they have shaped us. We closed off the day with an extra special drum circle
and then went our separate ways for a night with our host families. It was a
really good day :)
---Elisha Serotta
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