Today was our very first day working on the house in Slidell. When we got to the site we were told we would be raising a wall. It took all of us as a group to lift this wall and it was a very bonding group experience because we needed every person to pick it up.
Throughout the day we became friends with the Americorps volunteers, the East St. Tammany Habitat for Humanity on-site staff, and our den mother Kristen (who gave Joel a hot pink hard hat for the day).
After a long, very hot day of hammering we ended up putting up 3 exterior walls and have begun working on the interior walls. Our arms are now hurting but our minds and hearts are very happy after a camp fire sing-a-long. We cannot wait for our next couple of days on the site to see what the house will end up looking like, and going on the Bayou and not getting eaten by alligators. They should be more scared of us because we have been eating them down here in aligator sausage Po Boys.
"A friend is the hope of the heart" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Curfew is coming, so post again soon,
Kirsten
Sounds wonderful! Thanks for sharing. Say hi to everyone for us. Jeannie and Iain
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