People may think of summer as a time to hang out with friends and relax.  However, some South students decided to work over the summer with little kids.

One of these students is senior Maureen Anderson who worked at Wagner Farm. She has worked there for the past three years at the front desk, ice cream parlor and helping with birthday parties.

“[The thing I love most about my job] is the staff that I work with and just the community in general,” Anderson said. “When [people] come to Wagner Farm everyone is just happy.  The staff that I work with really enjoy their jobs, and they have been there for a while so they have seen the ups and downs of the farm.  It’s kind of like a mini [family], like a mini home.”

Senior Jenny Hinkamp agrees with Anderson; she really enjoys meeting new employees every year.  Hinkamp also likes giving the kids tours of the farm.

“For birthday parties we give the kids tours of the farm, and seeing the kids reactions when they see a cow for the first time and are in complete awe, or when we go by the pigs they all hold their noses [is the cutest thing],” Hinkamp said.

Senior Claire Rowlands found the kids to be very cute too. She said that many kids asked her if she was born in the 1920s and actually lived at the house on the farm.

Sophmores Ali Campbell and Connie Chrones also had jobs teaching kids this summer, but they were not giving tours. Chrones taught kids how to swim by taking them through 10 levels starting with dunking their heads under water to doing a competitive stroke.

Campbell found this job to be enjoyable and inspiring.

“[I loved] when the kids learned how to do something, and you see them doing it really well, and before they didn’t know how to do it,” Campbell said. “The satisfaction that you taught them how to do it [makes me feel really good].”

Chrones said she loved the kids and got really attached to some of them.

“I remember this one girl that got really attached to me, and toward the end of the three weeks she wanted me to babysit her,” Chrones said. “I just thought that was funny because you really grow a bond with the kids.”