Early in the morning we headed down to Wainright Park. Even though we had had a long night the night before we all got up early to make it to the park on time. We where explained that the project would eventually lead to creating a nature trail for all to enjoy seeing as a lot of native and special plants of Florida reside there including a couple of extinct wild orchids. One problem they faced was that there were several homeless people living in this fenced in forest who with them brought a lot of garbage. Our task was to pick up the garbage so that the men in charge of the park could continue on to eventually accomplish their project goals. Earlier in the day a bus came to the park offering to take the homeless people to a shelter but most of them refused to leave. The director Juan said that once the homeless people start seeing that there is more activity in the park and that they are trying to maintain the park they will leave. It was quite amazing to see the variety in the garbage we found anything from staplers to bicycles and fishing rods. There was a lot of garbage and I believe our group all together did a great job at the park and got a lot more garbage picked up than what the four men could do alone. Juan and the other guys were really appreciative of our work and were very happy to see all we did.
-Angela Serna
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