Our First Day of Exploring!

The First Day:

First we greeted each other and made maps of where we live and places that we go.

then we left the Y we first walked thru Frazier Homes and saw some kids that we know.

 and we saw churches on Park Street; Tremont Temple Baptist Chruch and St. Phillips Monumental AME Church.

After the Churches we went to the park. We got there as they were closing the Farmers Market. We met Mr.Lester who teaches photography at Savannah State.

Mr. Christopher who is a 7th & 8th grade science teacher at Charles Ellis.

 We met Teri (above!) and Kelly (below!) who help run the market. Ms. Teri and Mr. Christopher are married. 

We met  Mr.Johnny, who works at the market and takes care of the little green wagon.

The little green wagon is a program for little kids that come every Saturday to plant veggies. The can come back the next Saturday to pick them up and plant them in their own yard.

Then we noticed that there were people dressed up in costumes & fighting with swords in the park. So we went to see who they were.

They were very hot and tired when they finished fighting because the costume was heavy.

 Then we met Ember (below!) who told us about the people fighting in the park. We got to hold the swords. Ty'rik got to hit Lindsey with the sword. (the brothers....)

And then we met Becky (above & below)  who was a relative with the people fighting in the park. And she was a great drawer who drew realistic pictures. She was happy to meet us because she likes hanging out with people more than fighting. It sounded like she had a lot of friends.

This is one of Becky's drawings.

And look at her cool boots! (with a pen, ready for drawing!)

Next we went to Brighter Day for a Snack.

                                            We met Steven who is a cashier at Brighter Day.

And a woman named Laura who has a really nice huge dog who was good at obeying orders. 

Later: Renise and Ms.Molly ran down to the Telfair Museum of Art because there was a show hanging up by some of the kids that Ms. Molly did art with in the summer time. The show was about Savannah and people's favorite places.

 I (Renise) met Erica,  she works at the Education Center for the Museum. We also met Cara and Warren Raisch, they own a art website. They have two girls,katy,and skyleigh and they are really nice.

What is G8 Savannah Youth Connection?

This blog is about a group of 8 young folks that explore different places and on the way we meet different people. So far we've met so many different people, doing different things each and every week.  When we meet someone is in need and we meet someone that can help someone in need we can bring a connection to these people, & that's why we are called the G8 Savannah Youth Connection.

We got our name because Nya (one of our members!) learned about The Group of Eight (G8) in school. The G8 is a forum for the governments of eight of the world's largest national economies that have agreed to help each other out when they are in need.  

First of all were gonna talk about our group members. 

First, it's Mrs.Molly, she is 25 years old. She is the art teacher at the West Broad Street YMCA.

Then there is Nya. She is 11 years old and turned 11 on the 24th of September. 

Then is there is Renise she is 11 years old.

Then there is Jaala she is 13 and she is Nya's sister. 

Tyrik who is 12. 

His brother Lindsey is 11. 

Their cousin Kenyell is 12.  (here she is interviewing one of the farmers at the market.)

Deshon is 11.

We also always have a buff man like Mr. Joe (Deshon's dad), Mr. Brandon or Mr. Jamal who work at the Y come along with us.