After our gorgeous training in Colorado we left with another crew who would be helping us set up in Coshocton, Ohio. We made a few stops on the way to Coshocton.
-We stopped in Omaha, Nebraska where Morgan from the other crew lives. There her family treated us really nicely with a huge home cooked meal.
-We then made it to Chicago where we spent a rainy day in the city and enjoyed some Chicago style pizza.
-After that we stopped in Ohio for a few hours near where Patrick on my crew lives. We got lunch (chicken salad, yum) from his mom and then we had a crazy back road drive to Coshocton Ohio.
The whole drive was like this, and the roads were so windy. However, it was absolutely gorgeous.
Our camp in Coshocton was fun. Our director was this guy:
He's known as the 5th Summer Staffer since he's done this so many times on staff. He has so many crazy stories and experience. He was really helpful, and even though we had 2 serious situations he made them seem like they were nothing. He also helped us realize that those crazy moments are what really make the camp interesting and memorable.Other than Tony, the rest of the staff this week was awesome. We had 2 amazing volunteers that are married and just come to these camps because they like to volunteer...Doo and Jean. Man were they awesome/helpful/parents for me for this week. We actually will be stopping by their place on the way back to Colorado, and I couldn't be happier about it.
We had some visitors from other crews as well, which was a lot of fun, and then by the end of the week it was just the 4 of us, getting stuff done.
The town of Coshocton is extremely small, and one of those places where everyone really does know everyone. The custodians I worked with knew exactly where all the houses we were working on were, and they all knew about the one and only radio station of Coshocton (The spirit of Coshocton).
Side note on the radio station: They would have a 20 minute thing every few hours called the Trading Post where basically whoever wanted to buy or sell something would call in, and basically advertise what it was they needed or were selling for a minute. It was hilarious, to say the least. A whole lot of cheap broken down piece of junk cars.
The hotel we stayed in the first and last weekend of that week was called the Country Squire Inn. Calling it sketch is a little bit of an understatement. Even the locals thought it was funny that we were staying there.
On Sunday of that week we moved on to Cincinnati
where we stayed in a church with a Week of Hope crew. WOHs are smaller formats of Workcamp. We stayed there, and explored the city for two days. It might have just been because I was cranky, but Cincinnati really didn't do much for me. It's a cute small city...but that's about it. I guess it was also because I was a little anxious to get on to the next camp.We had some pretty views though, so I guess I can't really explain.
God bless,
Catherine
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