Clinic Blog: 2011 Fishkill 2 Clinic Blog
August 1, 2011
Travel and Intro Day, WHEW!
By jmarshall
We have all arrived in Fishkill!!!! Our clinic team consists of 13 members, from all over the country and 2 from Canada, eh?!
Dawn - clinic manager - Tampa, FL
Maria - clinic coordinator - NY
Scott - clinic manager - Mississippi
Steph S. - Knoxville, TN
Jennifer B. - fundraising captain - Cincinnati
Jen M. - communications captain - Richmond, VA
Steph C. (Redd) - fundraising captain - San Antonio, TX
John - all we know is that he fixes broken stuff :) and that's it. (just kidding, he's from Cincinnati! I just liked his intro speech.)
Teresa - inventory captain - Seattle, WA
Amber - Raleigh, NC
Debbie - production captain - Canada
Michael - Cincinnati
Tara - Canada
After all the flight delays and travels, we all finally got together for some NY style pizza and some laughs! Our team has some clinic veterans, as well as some newbies, and we're all eager to get this clinic started and experience new things. One new experience came when Michael sent his first text at dinner!!! Maria assigned us each our duties for the first day of camp. The "camp" is actually 5 camps on the Sharpe Reservation, run by the Fresh Air Fund. The FAF aims to get inner city kids from NYC out to experience the outdoors. Each day we will be taking Eyeleen, the Vision Van, to a different camp. Each camp has different kids- for example, the one we're going to tomorrow is for special needs kids. There's also an all boys camp, etc. Our first week will be hectic, as we will also be finishing up the manufacturing from Fishkill 1, which took place a couple weeks ago. We also have some team members that will only be with us one week, but we will have some more joining us for the 2nd week! Lots of new faces and new friends to make! Dawn wants us to leave at 7:30am, sharp, so we've got to rest up for a hectic first day of clinic tomorrow! Everyone is so excited!! Thanks for following along with us on our journey!
