Daily Journal

This week has been a complicated one so far. The majority of the IRE students went on a camping trip to volunteer at the North Shore. The few of us who decided not to go continued our daily work and found volunteer projects of our own. On Monday afternoon the four of us who remained cleaned the Mesabi campus and I must say it needed it. In no time at all we had four garbage bags full of loose trash. Tuesday and Wednesday we were asked to help ICC prepare for their first camping trip to Camp Rankine. The four of us did virtually all of the food and equipment preparation. It was a learning experience trying to plan an event for a group of 70 people. Two days of running was barely enough time to get the essentials figured out. I’m sure next year will have fewer issues because everyone will have a better idea of what is going on and the school will have most of the equipment they need. One of the worst parts is being told we needed to get the registration for 18 canoes/kayaks. Well, first of all, the DMV doesn’t like it when you bring in 18 registrations and say we need these done in under two hours, and we don’t know how to pay for them, and we don’t have the right info, and half are used half are new, and some had previously been registered incorrectly. We did get it ironed out in time and the only major problem was finding enough lifejackets so all of the watercraft could be used at once. It was all hard work and was stressful, but to be honest I did learn a lot about organizing and delegating, and it was still fun.