Black Fox Elementary Narrative

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Black Fox Elementary This summer I became a stripper, well a wax stripper. For five days my church youth group, The Well, and I went down to Cleveland, Tennessee to attend a missions camp. Before camp began we found out we would be serving in a school in Cleveland, but we had no idea what to expect. On the second day of camp we pulled up to Black Fox Elementary School and told the principal, Ms. Kim, and the custodian, Cody, that we were there to help with the many projects they needed done. They started us out by having one group scrape glue and putty off all the walls in the school and they had the other group scrape wax off all the bathrooms. I was in the group that scraped glue off the walls and that is not as easy as it sounds. We …show more content…

Going into camp I knew we would be helping out a school and I did not think I would have fun or get anything out of the experience, but I was so wrong. Even when I was on my hands and knees stripping wax off a classroom floor, I was having a great time just knowing how much my work was helping Ms. Kim and Cody and everyday I looked forward to going back. We later found out that Cody was able to take a week long vacation because we got so much of his work done! After finding that out, I knew I had helped make a difference in Cody's life which made me feel so humble and honored that I could do that for him. During our work, Ms. Kim told us that around 70% of the Black Fox Elementary students live in poverty and cannot wait to come to school so they escape their troubles at home. Ms. Kim told us that those kids were going to be so excited to see how clean we got their school to be and I wish I could have seen their faces when they saw what we had done. I now look forward to volunteering and helping others because I know that I am making a difference in someone's life, which is a humbling and amazing feeling that I hope everyone can experience one

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