Cleaning Up

Starting a Flower Garden

The corner of Orleans and Chester Streets

Etiquette Dinner

On Friday August 15, 2008 we at Banner Neighborhoods Youth Program attended an Etiquette dinner at a restaurant titled Three. This restaurant is located on the corner of Linwood and Baltimore street. When we first walked in we all thought that the place looked amazing and was a great choice for us to have a dinner. We had outstanding service from our waitresses, they were on task and on top of everything, such as introducing what was on the menu, explaining what the foods were, always refilling our water cups, and being quite friendly. Most of the crew ordered the same meal which was jalapeno corn chowder and pork ribs with mashed potatoes or french fry shaped potatoes. After dinner the cooks came out and introduced themselves and asked how our meals were. I thought that was very nice of them to come out and introduce themselves the way they did. For desert we all ordered the mousse duo except for Andre who wanted to try sheep milk yogurt. After we finished desert we all sat around and talked for a little more. As a team we talked about our experiences this summer and all the fun times we've had. We all hope to stay in touch with each other as the school year starts and hope to see each other fulfill our goals as life goes on.

Our Etiquette Training

On Thursday after we worked outside Mrs. Carolyn came in to talk to us about manners. She noticed that some of us were shy. She had the observations to know that we were shy by noticing that everyone did not make eye contact or give a firm decent handshake. She asked us questions about manners and then told us how to be better on our accessibility. This training was very overt and helpful to us all. It showed us how to be more respectful to other people and ourselves. Mrs. Carolyn was a very nice lady, for she took time to come down here to Banner to talk to us about manners and how to be respectful young adults. We highly appreciate what she has done for us by teaching and showing us how to be more respectful and use manners the right way.

The Best Summer Job Ever

On August 6, 2008 the crew and I worked outside when it was hot 92 degrees, however we still got the job done. We did Fairmount around 12 noon and we went on break around 12:45. We all returned back to banner, then we went to CCBC community college of BALTIMORE county we learned about the different programs; Ms. Emily Cherry showed us about parallel enrollment programs and courses that you can take while you are in high school to receive more credits. They have three other locations in Essex, Catonsville, and Dundulk. Each college has great enrollment plans and they even have computer-automated manufacturing, but in all we had a nice time there.