August 5, 2011

Day 5 - Production Day!!!

By jmarshall

Today was another short but work-filled day.  Today was production day, which means that allllll we did was make lenses!  There were surface jobs to still be completed from this past week on Eyevan.  Surface jobs are jobs we don't have stock lenses for, and lenses need to actually be physically made.  A group of us also cut chabellas, which are a generically-shaped lens used for global clinics, all with the same frame.  We cut several different strengths for a total of about 1700 lenses!  Crazy busy!  Between Eyevan, Eyeleen, and a makeshift lab set up in a barn, we had 9 edgers running!  Today was also an emotional day.  Before we started work, we all gathered in Eyeleen for a debrief.  John, Steve, and Amber left us today.  We had an emotional pinning ceremony where they received their pins for being on this OneSight mission.  They each said a little piece about our Fishkill 2 family and their experiences this past week.  Steve made a particularly heartfelt speech.  He has been on numerous missions and wore a hat today with all of his pins.  He talked about how he basically works for OneSight (although he is from LensCrafters) and talked about how these missions were so important to him because he got to not only help these kids see, but study and learn and be more successful later on in life.  Steve also said how great it was to just be able to spend some time with people who were just as passionate about OneSight as he was.  He took PTO to volunteer for this mission because he had been selected for a global mission later on in the year to South Africa.  His passion almost brought a few of us to tears.  It was sad to see them leave.  We will be having 3 more members join us on Sunday, so we're looking forward to that, but we'll miss those who have already become family in such a short period of time.

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