I'd like to start off by saying that in this post I will make up for my lack of content in my last one. Right now, I'm feeling a bit competitive(which I hardly ever am, it must be all of the uncompetiveness during Ultimate Frisbee and I feel that I have to make up for it(sorry for the babbling)), so I am going to try to beat Doug's lengthy post from yesterday. Here it goes...
We started the day off meeting at the Voorhees parking lot, like usual, except a whole hour later! You would think an extra hour of sleep would make everyone not as tired, but for today, that wasn't the case for some people. We loaded into the vans at around 8:45 and headed to the ExxonMobil building in Clinton. Rose's van jammed out to some of Jenn's awesome tunes which got us pumped for the day!
When we arrived at Exxon, we were given visitor passes with our names on them and met up with Rich Woods. We were all taken to a conference room and Rich Woods gave us a quick introduction and the agenda for today. After that, Greenteam 1(my team) was led upstairs to the top secret labs where Josh showed us the top secret lab experiments, Unfortunately, I cannot go into detail on the experiments, as they are the most secretive top secrets in the world. Meanwhile, Greenteam 2 was showed a powerpoint about landscape architecture given by Melissa. We then swapped places and Greenteam 1 was showed the landscape architecture powerpoint, and Greenteam 2 saw the top secret labs.
As Melissa was finishing up the landscape architecture powerpoint, Greenteam 2 entered the room and got to see the last few minutes of the presentation again. All of us then were showed another powerpoint, this time about an Exxon employee's trip to Qatar and the northernmost place in North America! Rich Woods then presented us with a powerpoint full of awesome and beautiful pictures from the grounds and wildlife of the building we were in.
Next was lunch! We were given a variety of different pizza choices, ranging from vegetarian to plain and a lot in between, along with salad and a large option of assorted drinks. As we ate, Rich showed us a powerpoint on bears in New Jersey, with multiple cute little cub pictures! After a short break, Rich taught us about biodiversity.
As the day at Exxon was coming to an end, the employees we got the pleasure of meeting today were ready for some questions from us. After answering some good intellectual questions, we left Exxon and headed to Voorhees State Park for some intense ULTIMATE FRISBEE. Greenteam 1 kicked some serious butt! It was probably because of all of our intense practice preparing us for this epic game. Unfortunatly for our teammates, Kellie and I died(figuratively) during the water break/halftime of the game, which led to a couple others also leaving the game.
As the day came to an end, we went to the Voorhees parking lot and people left happy and full of knowledge after a very educational and fun day. I would like to thank the employees at Exxon who gave us a phenominal tour and educational and fun powerpoints(Even though they might not read this, they still deserve a great deal of thanks). And to our crew leaders, Rose, Ellen, Lauren, Arielle, and Jon, along with the apprentices, Colin and Max, I feel like you guys are under a lot of pressure having to be responsible for all of us miscreants(aka crew members), THANKS. Also, none of this would be possible without Rachel Lettre, thank you! One last thank you goes out to you, whoever actually read all of that, thanks a bunch, it took me forever and a day, but I enjoyed it, and I felt that you should know about our epic day in detail.(There were a lot of commas in that sentence, oh well. I'm getting too lazy now to make it better.)
See you tomorrow!
-Brittany
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