Greetings from then Arizona Border ABST. This is Sarah Ludwig and Jenna Miller. This morning, we woke up bright and early and headed straight over to the Pio Decimo Center to finish up some service from earlier this week. Some of us organized sheds while others painted the rest of the fence around the children’s […]
Hi! I’m Julie, and I’m having a wonderful time with the rest of my group here in Tucson! Today, we left bright and early to spend the first part of our day with some preschool students at the Pio Decimo Center! After getting some quality playtime and helping the teachers with some tasks, we headed […]
Hello. I’m Hiyori from Japan. I am an exchange student majoring in Psychology at Gannon and I am participating in the Arizona ABST! We left our house at 7:45am and headed to the Pio Decimo center. It was cloudy but warmer than yesterday. We worked on painting that we had left over from yesterday. While […]
Hello from Arizona. We are Lily B and Alyssa M, and we are having such a great time in Tucson, AZ. Our group started the day nice and early with a grab and go breakfast and arriving at the Pio Decimo Center at around 8:15 this morning. We quickly met with John Lohse, our volunteer […]
Hello from Tucson, Arizona! This Sarah Ludwig and Jenna Miller. Today was our first full day here, and it was filled with so much fun. We started off by driving to the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. On our way there, we took a pit stop to enjoy the magnificent scenery. At the desert museum, we […]
We started the morning by getting to Pio Decimo at 9:00. Some of the crew made their last trip to Dutch Bros to fuel up for the day with smoothies and coffee. We did many small tasks today, like cleaning windows, painting bookshelves, pulling weeds, touching up the paint on the mural, and more. Today […]
We woke up bright and early this morning, just like any other, only thistime we woke up to snow! I suppose we cannot get away from the cold weather nomatter how far we travel, but it still turned out to be a beautiful day! Aftergoing to Pio Decimo for a short time to help move […]
We started the day eating breakfast in the Airbnb as usual. We still had a variety of foods like oatmeal, hard-boiled eggs, and pizza. We left for the Pio Decimo Center around 8 am, where we met John for our next adventure. Starting our service for the day, the group was divided into two groups […]
Hello from Arizona, Today was an eventful day. We woke up very early and headed out for a morning coffee run at our new favorite stop, Dutch Bros. Then, we headed off to the Pio Decimo Center, where we learned about their mission and values. This beautiful facility has so many amazing programs that they […]
Morning rush following the beautiful sun rise on the second day of our service trip, we embraced what the day had in store for us. Today, John and Sharon, Gannon alumni, led us to a tour of the Nogales border patrol station, about an hour away. We explored the city of Tucson a bit more […]