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Moral Courage
Moral Courage Today was our first full day in the community that we will work with for the next 3 days. Our service projects today involved fixing and painting the stands next to their soccer field, painting school buildings and painting their water tower. We worked alongside community members and (attempted) to have conversations...
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Day 9
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text letter_spacing=””]After finishing breakfast, we headed to the worksite to continue the project. We filtered sand and gravel, mixed cement, and moved bricks. From here, we finally saw some structure build up. After about four hours of work, we headed back down to the homestay for lunch. I think this was the point where we...
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Wowacintanka (Fortitude/Tenacity)
Yesterday we built tipis for a Lakota children’s camp. We built the first few tipis, and it was fairly simple after understanding the ways to construct one. The tipis have so much symbolism for the Lakota people. The tripod (the foundation of the tipi) represents the morning, evening, and north stars. The remaining seven poles...
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