Phrase of the day: Vamos a minga etso!... Let's minga this!
"Minga" - Not actually a verb. Not actually even a word according to my #1 National Bestseller Spanish to English Dictionary. (Maybe we need to rethink its #1 status?). A "minga" is when people of a community gather together to accomplish a task.
And today we did exactly that! Using a lot of help from Kasie's youth group, today the people of neighborhood "Los Angeles" destroyed the river. And by "destroyed", I of course mean cleaned it and made it look pretty.
We removed all of the trash (Really, more than one tire??). 
We took out weeds (Those are some big weeds!). 
We put up signs about protecting our environment and not messing up the recently renovated bridge. 
We trimmed the tree over the bridge to allow for more light and to make the bridge a safer place to walk. (No worries Bubs, you know my massive arms would have held me if my feet had slipped. False).
We ate snack. Tuna sandwhiches and Juice. Yes, I just had a few glasses of juice! 
Each person of the neighborhood was asked to clean in front of his/her own home. Then a huge dump truck came by for a few hours to collect all of the rubbish. 
Basically, we made it rain. A lot of the people who worked, but not everyone. 
Before (green is bad?): 
After (that's a good thing we did, right?): 
Yeah, we did actually do a good thing. The trees now have room to grow, and we removed tons of trash. It was about 4 hours of nonstop work (minus snack). Let's see how long it stays clean!
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