Today marks our third day in Memphis and our first day volunteering at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital. We arrived Saturday evening after getting slowed down by a snow storm while leaving Missouri but managed to make it just two hours behind schedule! We're staying at the Pilgrim House Retreat Center, where we have triple bunks. It's like being away at camp or back in the dorms for the week!
At the hospital today we had orientation and our first volunteer shifts. Some of us were baby huggers--which is exactly what it sounds like, others took a cart of hot chocolate up and down the hospital halls to serve to patients and families and some of us brought an activity cart to kids. We made princess crowns for a birthday girl and decorated a room of a girl with cerebral palsy, and it was great to see how just showing up brightened up their days.
We're pretty tired but we'll write more tomorrow. Good luck to all the trips!
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