Mission:New Orleans – Day 2
Today was our second full day down here in New Orleans and after a few dozen cell phone alarms and showers; me and the guys in my room were ready to head down for a quick breakfast. When we walked outside today I was so relieved that it wasn’t nearly as bright or as hot as it was yesterday. The first day on site progressively got hotter and hotter until around lunch. However, today there was a nice breeze and the sun felt just a little bit further away. We all arrived on site around 7:30 and got to work shortly after. The people that were doing siding on the right side of the house continued their work, the guys on the roof the first day, including me, changed it up a bit and helped with measuring, cutting, and some siding wherever it needed to be done or continued. There were a few people on the first day working inside the house had finished yesterday and they were the ones on the roof today.
I was on the left side of the house with Megan Goose, Jessica B., and Brooke Drew doing some siding. After I’d finished some trimming all around the house I jumped in with them and we got things down relatively sooner. I was up on the ladder for the most part while Goose would bring the wood. Brooke and Jessica and a couple other girls were finishing some siding on another wall close by. At about 11:30 we all left for lunch and split up between Mcdonald’s and Burger King. At Mcdonald’s I had an amazing Big Mac with Taylor Hurley as we joked and conversed in the nice air conditioning. When I first sat down there were some locals asking me why we were here and what we were doing. I told about what we were doing for Habitat for Humanity and how much we’d gotten down on the house so far and shared with them what kind of group Rhythm was and how awesome it was doing some work that needed to be done.
After lunch all work continued for about an hour or two. During those hours the right, left and back wall as well as the roofing had all gotten completed, and all that was left to do was finish walling and shaping up the front of the house. Unfortunately the front side took longer than we’d hoped. So, while I and 9 other people stayed to finish that up, Craig had sent the rest of the group on back to get freshened up.
Overall, it was an awesome and very successful day. We finished all the siding and we are officially done with our work on that house. Tomorrow we will be sent to a new sight to start on some cement block laying and digging and a bunch of new stuff.
Tonight we’re going downtown for the first time and I am so excited about it. We’re eating together tonight, but tomorrow we’ll most likely be splitting up and exploring downtown New Orleans in our own little groups. I have to say Craig, Shanna, Josh, Bobby, and all the other people that are taking the responsibility to handle close to 40 youthful adults, are doing such an incredible job and I can’t thank God more for them. They are great people to look up to and I’m glad God those them as leaders. We’re being excellently taken care of and I couldn’t be having a better time. We’ll see what tomorrow brings!
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Matt
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