Hiya!
It is my 3rd official day here volunteering, and things are going quite well. There's a rotation schedule that allows each volunteer to spend time working with groups, helping with reception and housekeeping, helping cook meals, and get a chance to do various other tasks around the centre. This Tuesday-Thursday I am on "Centre Support", which can mean basically any odd job a fellow called Shane comes up with. Yesterday he gave me the project to do research on the centre's energy consumption and come up with a report to share with the volunteers, simple tricks to reduce energy consumption, and whatever else I could think of.
I compiled a list of easy tips to saving energy and also made a fun sheet of "Interesting ways to think about Energy". On my sheet, I compared the loss of energy caused by small things (i.e. leaving a laptop plugged in overnight, leaving the lights on when you aren't in your room, etc.) to bigger activities. For example, leaving a PC moniter on all night wastes enough energy to microwave 6 dinners. Then I added a little personal story to each scenario such as, "Ethan had to eat six cold spaghetti dinners because someone left their PC moniter on all night". Sort of fun! Anyway, the staff members absolutely loved it. Snaps for me. Little did they know, it really didn't take a lot of work as Shane let me take 2hours off yesterday to walk into town :) He he. More research today, though!
Also, there's a Swedish group here for a couple days. I'm not working with them, but I talked to a couple of the leaders at lunchtime yesterday. They said they have a couple of students with them named "Karen" and asked where I was from. I had no idea the general population of Sweden knew of Minnesota, but they were ecstatic when I told them I was from Minneapolis and knew it was a major place for Swedish immigrants.
Cheers,
Karen
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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