Our Service Project

Right! So, I've run out of inspiration due to boredom, may have an angsty rant later about my bad day yesterday, but for now, here's a recount of our service project at school from last week.



Day 1

8am: Arrive at train station, make innumerable phone calls to determine exactly which train everyone is on. Get the wrong train.

8:30am: Arrive at next station, see large group of fellow classmates getting off the train directly after yours, catch them up, exhale large sigh of relief.

8:45am: Finally find correct platform, catch train to next stop, walk to childcare centre

9:30am: Work begins!

Having arrived at the childcare centre, it became clear that most of the Monday would be spent clearing the garden. As a result, we spent the entire day pulling out fish fern, of which there was a massive (and apparently multiplying before our eyes) quantity, pruning hedges that had overgrown, removing the rose plants because they were spiky (and posed a health risk, thankyou OH&S) and attempting to uproot other stubborn plants.

Unlike the superior intellect of the human, and even the animal brain, which would have given up once it realised that it was fighting a losing battle, the plants decided not to cower even under threat of the clippers, and as a result, many of our group received minor injuries (many were scratched by the rose plants, which put up a good fight). However, all the annoying, overgrown and unnecessary plants were uprooted and bagged, leaving the playing field at the end of the match – us 1, garden 0.

After lunch, we decided to continue uprooting the leftover bits of weeds and all the other stubborn green stuff. Zil and Lauren had spent the entire morning trying to remove a deeply rooted stump, and after 4 hours of digging finally managed to wrench the thing out of the ground, replacing the stump with a large crater where the stump had once sat. (us 2, garden 0).

At 3:30pm, it was time to go home and reattempt the challenge that was the train system. We had removed 36 garbage bags worth of plants, swept the paths outside the centre, and all in all, the place looked a lot tidier.

And very, very bare…

Still. That was to be fixed up on Day 2.


Ciao for now!
~Pia