Day Two: Learning something

Day Two:

7/8/18

My day started with low energy and confusion. I woke up to find that most of the HU students have left to go hike on potato hill, along with the White swan students (WS). I woke up around 8:30am.  Breakfast was getting prepared. I enjoyed breakfast because the cold fresh mountain air and just being around happy people. After we were done eating, we started to pick up after ourselves. By this time we started to get ready to go to a youth camp to shower and possibly do some activities. We arrived around 10 or 11: 30am, just a rough estimate. After our shower we came inside to do our blogs. So that’s what I’m doing right now.
This is inside the youth camp lunch room. You will see Rudy in the green here.
Destiny in the white, and Maria in the black.

After we did our blogs we went on a hike down the road from the camp to look at how the trees are doing and what is happening to them. We learned that some of the trees are not healthy and there are some over growing areas where the trees are getting crowded and fighting for water and nutrients that are in the soil. This makes is harder for the trees to grow, and this stresses them out, not allowing them to grow properly and they are more sustainable to diseases. That’s all I have for today. Thank you.

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