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My Week at Falcon Children's Home

Shew! It's been a while. As many of you know I spent last week, Monday-Friday, at Falcon Children's Home. In order to complete the last level of the Duke Of Edinburgh Award that I've been working to achieve for the last 3 years, I had to do a residential project. I've been around Falcon, NC my whole life. Naturally that was the first place that came to my mind. My family has been affiliated with the International Pentecostal Holiness Church for decades. I've always had an enormous amount of respect for the work that FCH does, but you never can truly appreciate something until you experience it. I wrote 14 pages in a journal in 4 days. I'll be sharing parts of what I wrote during the week too. So, my spill begins. I arrived Monday around noon. I felt ready, confident, and excited to feel some independence! The minute my mom hugged me bye all of that flew out the window, and I knew right then, this was going to be a LONG week. At the same time, I was so happy ...