We’ve learned a lot and accomplished a lot in this outreach weekend. On Friday afternoon of April 1, we worked in the greenhouse. Three of us helped to paint the table legs, while two of us used boxes to cover the ground to stop weeds from growing in a more sustainable way. See how hard our students were working:
Figure 1 Students painting table legs
Figure 2 Student working underneath a table to over the ground with boxes
On Saturday morning, we had a tour around East St. Louis, which was a routine but excellent experience for students who first came to ESL. Even those who have been to ESL could always learn something new from the tour. Students raised a lot of interesting questions during the tour.
In the afternoon, we went back to the greenhouse and two more students joined us. We did something outside, which is to paint speed bumps! We split into two groups to work more efficiently. At the end of the day, we painted 10 speed bumps or even more we could found in that area. See how these speed bumps were painted:
Figure 3 We first cleaned up dirt and trashes around speed bumps
Figure 4 Then we painted the first half of the speed bump to let vehicles go over
Figure 5 Then we go to a second speed bump, painting half of it
Figure 6 When the first half of the first bump is dry, we come back to the first speed bump to paint the second half.
Pirtle’s is our last stop for this outreach weekend. The ice cream is great reward for our students’ hard work.
