YOU ARE DOING WHAT?

The 4-H house (at the University) was built to accommodate those who wanted a higher education, but still wanted to keep the cost at a minimum while attending. There were about 56 girls staying at the house when our younger daughter was getting her degree.

They achieved this by doing their own cooking, cleaning, baking and quarterly jobs around the premises. Lawn raking in the fall, window washing, to name a few.

One Saturday I had phoned our daughter and asked what she was doing? I wasn't expecting this from our "little 18 year old". She said, "We are having fall clean up day today, and we drew slips out of the jar and I drew the slip to clean the GREASE TRAP." This grease trap was located in their industrial sized kitchen and one had to take a really long handle pan and reach in there and dip all the goop out and clean it. I thought to myself, we have someone come and do ours and here our "baby" was doing this on a much larger scale. I was feeling her dislike for this chore, also.

She proceeded to tell me that she couldn't stand the smell and ran clear to the third floor and still she could smell the stench. I don't know what kind of a job she did that day, as she has quite a weak stomach for such things. Oh well, she lived to tell about it.

Wisdom--The 4-H house was really a great place to live. If these girls hadn't learned TEAMWORK prior to going to college, they certainly learned it while staying at the 4-H house.
A lot of the girls came from the farm and was used to some distasteful chores, but our daughter hadn't done something this gross before.The girls had to have had an excellent grade point average before they considered them to live at the house. Also, they had to maintain there grades while living there. Stay tuned, I have a few tales to tell about visiting there.