A day in the life of YouMeWe: Monday

Monday

Minecraft

In the morning we have our Monday Kickoff Meeting. Every Monday we have a kickoff meeting where the team joins from all over the world to talk about our TOP 3 Focus items for the week and then Clubhouse on Wednesdays for all volunteers and team members to join to hear of upcoming events. Friday Close is when we discuss our Top 3 Wins; what went wrong, what to improve, and what to keep doing more of.

6:30 pm

We visited St.Francis. Things are not always as smooth as we hope. We were continuing with the effort to get the kids Minecraft accounts. This was being done remotely by our Ambassador Arata who was going through step by step how to set up an email account in Gmail which was required in order to set up a Microsoft account for Minecraft.

The email accounts all showed up in English so we had 10 kids and 6 volunteers quickly moving to change the settings from English to Japanese.

The shared screen was not as vivid as we needed it to be so Arata had to change his background so we could see what he was showing us.

Then when we started on the next step, a code was being sent to the first account so we had to go back to that account and for those falling behind, they were really falling behind at this point.

Then the students became restless as ten-year-old boys and girls tend to be.

As they started to run around, we were going computer by computer to check the settings.

Just as we reached a critical point, two of the brothers had been fighting, one ran for his life out of the room and the other lay on the ground holding his head. So, quickly I go from tech person to dad and check if he is bleeding. Put my hand through his hair and out of his eyes and then realize he is bleeding from his gums. His tooth had been hit.

Into the sink area washing his mouth out, telling him to hold the paper towel on the gums until it stops bleeding. The tooth does not appear loose.

Just then another boy has a nosebleed. The heat or whatever they have been up to is causing havoc.

I tell him to put the towel up to his nose and put his head back and sit down.

In the end, everyone had accounts set up but the original email accounts set up for them have to be taken down as a matter of urgency as the kids are not allowed to have their own email accounts in case they try to reach their parents from whom they are estranged.

We go home after one hour and 30 minutes which feels like 8 hours. Minecraft is on the back burner until we finish with the video project starting tomorrow where the kids are using the audio and visual equipment we purchased for video making and editing. They are making a video about St.Francis from their perspective and will edit and show it in September with all of their art projects from the summer to the teachers, nuns, and supporters.

Goodnight.