Still Learning

Today Martika will give her perspective on the days events, enjoy.....

So we started off today on the wrong foot by being incredibly late because of one of our dearest members! I will not mention any names but our morning consisted of taking a side route to go pick up this special person and then getting back on track to get to Chelsea. Once we accomplished this obstacle, we were able to get back to work on the website that we have been working on all week. Since I was not present yesterday, I was brought up to date on the new program that was being used and what had been done so far. The website was really coming along but there was still a lot to be done. My first assignment included going through what was done of the website so far and making sure all the links were functional and there were no grammatical errors. This took quite a while because there were so many links and so many little details that needed to be looked at. As I was going through each an every page, I was sure to write down what needed to be fixed so that we could go back and fix them later. After about an hour or so of doing this task, I moved on to doing some research on how to get a better calendar on the page. The one we had originally was very simple and required the chaplains to go through and type in each and every event that would be occurring. We did not want to add this extra stress to their load so we thought it would be nice to add a more advance calendar that would be easier for them. I did some research and was able to find that you can put an outlook calendar on a website so that’s what we decided to do. Much better! Then we spent the rest of the day working on the content and making sure we had everything that was desired on the new website. Despite all the hard work that we put in today, there is still a lot to be done and I can’t wait to see what can be accomplished by the end of tomorrow!

Do You Have IT?

And by IT I mean Information Technology, or better yet, information about technology. If you do we are in need of your help! Today was a difficult day for the whole team as we all tried to master Front Page for the first time and create a new website for Seafarer's Friend. I know for many of you this may seem like a canoe trip downstream but for us it was like sailing with no wind.

Hopefully, by the end of the week we can get that anchor up and launch the new Seafarer's Friend site, in the meantime if you know anything about building a site on Front Page please let us know.

Good thing my team is full of patience and perseverance otherwise we would certainly be kicked overboard.

(Alright I will stop with the boat metaphors)

Seafarer or Sea Fellow?

All aboard the Bernon Van!

Destination: Seafarer's Friends in Chelsea, MA.

The Organization Break Down:

Seafarer's Friends is a non-profit organization that provides transportation, communication to families and someone to talk to for all of the men aboard ships that port in Boston, Portland and Portsmouth. Many of these men have been out at sea away from their families anywhere from a few months to a year. Chaplains that run the SeaFarer's Friends program are able to provide services of convienence such as a ride to the nearest grocery store or shopping mall as well as conversation and stress releif for the many difficult situations that Seafarers go through, such as seperation from loved ones, lack of communication to home, fear or encounters to pirates and many more frightenting or stressful unknowns of the sea.



To shake things up a bit Shu Yang will be describing his view on how our day went:

My name is Shu Yang. I am a member of Babson College SummerCorps. I, Samantha, Tinu, and Amy Z. worked with an Christain Affilated Organization named Seafarer's Friend. Seafarer's Friend is an organization hresponsible for fufilling seamen's spiritual needs and doing tasks such as selling phone cards and sim cards to the ship crew. Amy and I boarded a ship while the Tinu and Samantha took a tour with an habor tour with a Seafarer's Friend's employee went by the first name Henry. The crew memebrs on board consisted mostly Philopinos and two Greekmen. They seemed very Friendly. I helped a Seafarer's employee Bryan selling phone cards and sim cards to the some of the crew. The day ended by the Babson College Summer Corpse members trying to help set up a website for Seafarer's Friend.

Thanks Shu! Hopefully today will be just as interesting!