Last week, four of our six *cino interns moved into the rectory of Trinity Episcopal Church, just a short walk down Main Street from my and Rob's apartment, and a short bike ride from Huss School.
At the moment, Johnathan is working at his paid internship with White Yarrow Farm while the rest of us are enjoying the cool early-summer breeze flowing through the VG-R aerie at 37 N. Main. Liz and Marian are collecting quotes for the daily asterisk (sign up here to receive the fruits of their labor via e-mail every week day), while Paul is getting started on grant research for the Imagining Space project. Now playing: The Middle East.
Last week was a patchwork of arrivals and re-arrivals and getting-started sorts of tasks. We...
- Moved furniture and belongings to and fro.
- Cleaned the rectory and arranged it to look like a home.
- Started to stock the rectory pantry.
- Shared our first Friday evening meal together--homemade lasagna, breadsticks, salad (picked and prepared by Johnathan), rhubarb crumble (local rhubarb with Marian's neighbor's recipe), English tea (prepared by Paul).
- Attended the Sunday service and annual workday with Trinity Episcopal.
- Chipped in at the Triple Ripple Community Garden at Huss.
- Started the training process at World Fare with Marian, Paul and Johnathan.
- Walked, biked and drove around town to become more familiar with the place.
This afternoon over lunch, we'll have our first official meeting as a staff to continue fostering a cohesive sense of purpose, building relationships with one another, communicating and assigning tasks--and of course, nourishing our bodies with fresh, local, delicious, homemade food! One of the items on our agenda will be figuring out how to document this intern experiment in a way that welcomes you, our readers out there, into the story, so stay tuned for more to come...
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