Wednesday

Wednesday morning we went back to the Baltimore Station, where we had been the first day of our trip. We met a few more of the men who live there and heard their stories. One of the practices done to the men at the Baltimore Station is acupuncture, because it is said to help detox the body. Two members of our group were able to receive acupuncture, and they said it made them feel more relaxed than they have ever felt. While this was going on, the rest of us helped in the kitchen making sandwiches for the men's lunches. After this we helped organize a closet upstairs. There was a closet filled with suit jackets, pants, and shorts that were available for the men who live there. The clothes were unorganized and men who came to get clothes had to search through piles of things to find their size, so we went through all the clothing and labeled them with sizes. We then met up with Al, an alumni of the center who now works there, and he gave us papers with words relating to the Baltimore station on them, such as addiction, recovery, self-esteem, etc. We talked for a little about the words, and then split into two groups. One group wrote and performed a skit relating to the words, and the other group wrote a short story/poem.

Wednesday night we went to the girls' house from Girls Hope Boys Hope. There had originally only been a house for boys, and the boys wrote a letter to the show Extreme Makeover:Home Edition because they wanted a house built for the girls. The house was built by Extreme Makeover this past summer and was really big and nice. Because the house is new, only four girls currently live there, but there are looking for more girls to move in. We cooked dinner for the girls and staff members, and did some cleaning around the house.