AIB charity weekend started bright and early on Saturday morning. We all met at new AIB and got our charity weekend shirts and some food and whatnot. After taking a group picture, I found at that my big event group wasn't meeting until 1:30 to go to our project, so I could either sit around all day at AIB or I could hop on another team's project until 1:00 or so. I chose to join another group and headed off to a mentaly handicapped community to help clean up and restore their outdoor area. First, we carried out a whole bunch of old junk to make room for some prettiness. After that, we raked up all of the dead leaves in the area we had just de-junked, and then moved them to a trailer, but not in the trailer (why nots?). When that was all good and done, we began picking up bunches of rotting apples an throwing them in a bucket, which was fun and gross. When we were about halfway done with that task, I had to head off to my other project. We went to a community garden where we were to paint some concrete pipes, fix a tool shed roof, and eat some weeds. I chose to fix the roof cause that sounded right up my alley. After a few hours of working with minimal amounts of materials and tools, the shed had a new roof on it that will hopefully last a good long time.
On Sunday, I participated in my first marathon. Even though I ran the shortest leg of the relay, and took my sweet time doing it, I was still super sore the next day, and the day after that, and maybe even a little bit the day after that. I have no running experience, get shin splints, and didn't train at all, so the fact that I even finished was a really cool feeling, and I helped raise money for a good cause! Over all the weekend was a great time, even though it wore me out.
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