Cody- Riding on Angels Wings- Day Two

Day 2 of our time in Minnesota was the complete opposite of our first day. The first day there was more of the manual labor part of the job which involved mucking and horse grooming. The second day we spent indoors. This organization was started by a lady named Bete whose son DJ was born with cerebral palsy. Bete started Riding On Angels Wings because of DJ and it began with only a couple riders in her driveway. Over the years it has grown and so has its riders and facilities. The facilities are all on Bete's farm. The horses are kept there, so the barn is there too. There is also a riding arena where the actual horse therapy classes are held, and there is an office area for people to stay warm, and where much of the logistics are handled for the group. Our job for day 2 was to clean this office. As you would assume, an office with a horse arena on the other side of the wall can get pretty filthy. There are all kinds of people going in and out of the office and dragging with them mud, dirt, and snow. There was also a serious accumulation of dust on the surfaces of the office. Taking care of all of this was our task for day 2. Personally I was in charge of cleaning all of the windows, which were covered in dust. Also Eric and I were charged with the duty of organizing a corner of the office that had accumulated a random sample of things from around the place. There was much sweeping to do, and each of the drawers were examined and cleaned. Basically we just did a serious deep clean of the place. These tasks didn't seem to be that much of a big deal, but we could clearly see from the thanks we got that it was a big deal to the workers there. The tasks that was fairly simple for the group of us would have taken the few workers there several days. Between the first two days we saw two very different sides of this organization. There is the office side of handling the rider information and the organization, and there is the barn work where the horses are cared for. Both of these are necessary to the success and ultimately to the benefit of all the kids in need of the help that horse therapy can provide. Once again there were no kids on this day, because classes were not scheduled.