3rd week in denver

soooo, i left my camera charger at home. which my mom will be bringing to me! but luckily some other people have been taking pictures of me that i can post. :)

i've discovered that i'm not too fabulous at using blogspot. and posting pictures and writing next to it is very difficult and takes me a long time. haha, so i'll just post the captions first by number and the photos will be in that order at the end. 

1) finally, here's a picture of the home we've been staying in! it's a bright blue split level home. we've been here so long i can't imagine being some where else. definitely going to have to get used to that soon though since we'll be in a different home each week.

2) cathrine had never tasted sushi before! so our host family took us out to a reallyyy good sushi place. i was surprised how good it was even though we weren't close to the ocean, like i was used to. hah. 

3) the next night we decided to experiment with the sushi idea and had home made sushi for dinner! it was so fun making all the rolls. they didn't taste all that bad either. :)

4) we finally had our first community impact day. (CI day) we went to an area up in the mountains that was burned by the hayman fires, and still had not recovered from the damage. we all had a lot of different jobs that day. my jobs were to remove fallen trees and to put them in ravines to reduce erosion when the rain came. also, i dug holes and planted small trees to help regrow the area. it was a lottttt of hard work. walking up a 45 degree angle at all times gets a little difficult. but it was definitely worth it! by the end of the day, we could really SEE the impact we'd made on those few acres.