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  • Madison AdamsPhilly
    Day 1

    We're not in Kansas anymore

    May 9, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    o What are you hoping to learn about yourself as a leader on this trip?

    The Southwestern Leadership Team has made it to Philly and ready to take on this week in a new place! So excited for this new experience. This trip I am hoping to put myself in situations in which I have not been in before and learn more about myself. I am hoping that with this experience it helps me to expand my leadership knowledge and better understand the urban life. I am from a small town in Kansas so this is going to be all new to me. When I go on trips, I do not go to the rough parts of the city, because I am not doing service. When doing service in the city I am going to have to experience uncomfortable times, but that will help me see why we need to do service in that area. Over the time in Philadelphia, I learned that sometimes even when you may be uncomfortable, you can still see the work that you have done and how much it has benefited the people in the surroundings. When we were working at front steps I was really surprised with how many people actually stopped to tell us thank you. It was a good feeling to see that they actually noticed the work that we were doing. We even had a couple of people that asked where they could get the litter claws or how they could help. It was nice to see us encourage others to act by such a simple task as picking up litter.Read more

  • Madison AdamsPhilly
    Day 2

    Day 2: Salvation Army

    May 10, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

    o Write about one Philadelphian leader you have met: introduce him or her, describe the parts of the leadership system in relation to him or her
    During our time in Philadelphia we met some excellent leaders (Pastor Wes and Major Susan) and some places that did not have great leaders (Share Foods). You have to realize to learn from the good and you become the leader in the not so good situation. Major Susan works with the Salvation Army. I learned that with the Salvation Army, it is similar to an actual army. They have different rankings and wear outfits that symbolize their rankings. The Salvation Army gets donations of toys for their annual Christmas toy give away. Our job was to sort the huge pile of toys by the age and gender we felt matched. That way when it came Christmas time, they could easily place the toys with the right child. Major Susan worked alongside us sorting the toys and even encouraged us. We met our goal of finishing all of the bags, which made many of us happy. Major Susan and her husband even proceeded to feed us a lovely lunch at their building up the street. After seeing the neighborhood that they were located in, we knew that sorting the toys would mean a lot to the kids and the families in the near future. She showed that she was a leader by her actions, her strongest leadership style would be encouraging the heart. By being with her for a little bit I would rate her challenge the process as being the lowest, she strikes me as a woman that follows the rules and does not try differently. Overall I believe we got a lot accomplished at the Salvation Army with the help of Major Susan.Read more

  • Madison AdamsPhilly
    Day 2

    Art Museum

    May 10, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 14 °C

    Never before had I been to an art museum. It was interesting to have a tour guide and give you information about the variety of paintings that she showed us. We stayed in the same location the whole time so it would have been nice if the tour would have went around the museum.Read more

  • Madison AdamsPhilly
    Day 2

    Rocky

    May 10, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 12 °C

    Located outside of the art museum is the rocky steps. There were several members of the team who decided to run the steps, personally I was tired and sadly I have never seen the movie so decided against it. Along side the steps is the Rocky statue where many people gather around to take pictures.Read more

  • Madison AdamsPhilly
    Day 5

    Working Hard

    May 13, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 9 °C

    -Describe one act of a servant leader that you have witnessed in Philadelphia
    I know that this says to talk about a leader you witness in Philadelphia but I am taking a spin on it, I am going to talk about two people in which I saw really stand up and lead. While in Philadelphia I saw how good of leaders Karrie and Kendra are. They stood out to me, especially at the Share Food organization. Karrie is on the second year team but she started out on the first year team, so I got to get to know her a little bit at the beginning of the year. We did not really start planning out project yet so I did not get to see the leader in her. Kendra is on the fourth year team and was gone all second semester, I wish she would have been able to be here for the full year. I knew from the beginning she was going to be somebody that I looked up too when she took the initative to get to know all of us freshman. At Share Foods both Karrie and Kendra did several different tasks from putting food in boxes, weighing, taking the box off the belt, grabbing extra food, breaking down boxes and taking boxes to recycling. Every time their station got ahead they would move on to another station to assist people to help it go faster. Along with working hard, they also were encouraging everyone and telling everyone we could meet our goal. We were doing hard work and many people were wanting to give up/ be done and they kept everyone going and working hard.Read more

  • Madison AdamsPhilly
    Day 5

    Litter Patrol

    May 13, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 9 °C

    o What about the service experiences is different than the service we do on the team?
    For a service day we went to help Pastor Wes, who is in charge of front steps. Some of us were cleaning off a grave site, others were raking and I, along with others, was in charge of litter patrol. Many times in Winfield we do not clean up around town as service work, we do that as fundraising. You would not imagine the things we found, and how much litter we found. Every curb was covered in many things you had no clue what they were, thank goodness we had the claws to pick up the litter. Having the claws also gave the community members ideas that they could also use those to clean up the neighborhood. Pastor Wes explained that many times the people get overwhelmed because the trash gets to be too much to handle. In the Winfield area we do not see streets and neighborhoods with trash all over like that. It was something new to see a place be that dirty. It was good for us to be able to see that not all places are clean. When we are doing spring and fall cleaning we are mostly raking leaves for people to help make their yard look more presentable, never have I went to a job where we were picking up trash because the streets were so dirty. It is common in Kansas for people to keep the streets and neighborhoods trash free. It felt wonderful to be able to make a difference in these people’s lives, I hope we were able to spark a fire in them to either throw their trash in a trashcan or go to out and clean up the community.Read more

  • Madison AdamsPhilly
    Day 5

    Making My Way Downtown

    May 13, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 9 °C

    o What about being in Philadelphia is a new experience for you?

    Before this service trip, I had never been to Philadelphia or even Pennsylvania. When I thought of Philadelphia I thought about the historic aspects and the Phillies, not all of the poverty in the city. After arriving to Philadelphia, some of the girls on the team and I got separated from the group, we had got on the subway before everyone else could. We got off at the correct station and sat there for a while waiting on everyone else, who had passed the station and had to come back. We noticed there was a “football field” behind the station, which to us looked like a field of some grass. The kids were out there playing around and it hit me that this was the first wakeup call that we are not in Kansas anymore. After everyone arrived we started walking to our loft. Our first impression of the loft was not the best, it had the address spray painted on a bright blue door and was in an unsure neighborhood. Once we got inside the loft we realized that it was livable, it was nice to get to stay in two different types of neighborhoods on the trip to give us two different experiences. When I had traveled in the past, I had always stayed in hotels or a house, it was good to get to see the loft and hostel side of staying. The hostel was something I did not know even existed. At first I was very sketch about sleeping in the same room as 30 girls, but it was not that bad. We were downtown so most of our free time was not spent in the hostel anyways. Overall it was good to get to experience all new things throughout the time in Philadelphia.Read more

  • Madison AdamsPhilly
    Day 5

    Eisenhower Fellow{{SHIPS}}

    May 13, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 9 °C

    o What did you learn on the field experiences that helped you understand Philadelphia better?
    For one of our activities for the class we went on the mural mile tour. Our tour guide Al took us around the city to take a look at a select few murals, there is no way we would be able to look at them all. One of the unique things about Philadelphia is the murals all around and the different meanings behind them. One of the murals that stood out to me was the Eisenhower Fellowships mural. On the side of the mural it states “Only justice fairness, consideration, and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.” –Dwight Eisenhower, as people go by this mural the meanings and quotes can inspire them. Along the bottom there was the saying “Fostering leadership, progress and internal understanding”, right when I saw this I applied it to leadership. In the mural it showed different items that have been developed over the years, which people used leadership to create. Eisenhower was a great leader and he was from Kansas so it was easy to relate to as we have learned about him since we were younger. The mural is titles “Tree of Knowledge” which was painted by Michael Webb and completed October 2003. The mural gives you incites on all of the knowledge that has occurred over the years. It shows the many people that have taken the initiative to develop something new to better their community. Eisenhower Fellowships was created in 1953 where they decided to create a group to honor Eisenhower and his dedication to world peace.Read more

  • Madison AdamsPhilly
    Day 5

    Mural Mile

    May 13, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 9 °C

    These were some of the murals that we learned about on the Mural Mile Tour. Our tour guide Al talked about the artists and gave us important information about the murals. Throughout the tour we saw several different murals.Read more

  • Madison AdamsPhilly
    Day 5

    Graffiti or Art?

    May 13, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 10 °C

    On a mural tour, our tour guide Al asked us if we thought graffiti was art. After taking some thought about this question, I decided that yes graffiti is art it is a way that a person is expressing themselves.Read more

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