Elizabeth’s Blog Post
At 6:30 this morning we all awoke and prepared ourselves for what we thought would be a hard days work. What we didn’t realize though was just how hard it would be. When we arrived at our worksite at 7:45 a.m., I think we were all surprised to find a simple, muddy lot. Along with our site leaders Mike and Katie, our new found friends from New Jersey (a group of students associated with Pass It Along), and Ceaser (a Habitat 4 Humanity homeowner working off his “sweat equity”), we got to work exposing the recently-placed 30-foot long telephone poles in the ground and digging trenches. That’s what we did all day long – we dug and we dug and we dug. Andrew mastered the pick-axe while the rest of us shoveled. We also drove some steaks into the ground (courtesy of Jessica, RevKev, Anna and Andrew) and began laying some form boards (thanks to to David and Jessica). All of our work today was done in the hopes that the trenches will be filled with concrete which will create the foundation for the house. Oh! We also sweated, a lot! All of us, all day long.
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| Our work site at about 7:45 am... |
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| ...and our work site at around 3:45pm. |
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| Miss Kim and Catherine Ann enjoy a must-needed water break in the shade |
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| A closer view of our first day of work, complete with trenches, form boards, and poles. |
We did our best to keep our minds off the hard work though: discussing tons of movies (everyone’s top 5), getting to know the people that we were working with, enjoying an AMAZING bagpipe rendition of Amazing Grace from a volunteer at a nearby site, observing and talking to the residents of the neighborhood who were meanwhile watching us from their front porches, and cooling off with delicious snowballs that were being sold by the church right on the corner of the street.
At 4:00 in the afternoon, we had finished our work for the day and headed home to Zimple Street, most of us (especially me!) extremely dirty. We took showers and relaxed for about an hour and then headed off to Maple Street Book Store, a quirky but quiant place where we browsed thru hundreds of books, new and used, with many of us making some great purchases. When we returned home David had a delicious taco meal prepared for us where we refueld after such a labor-intensive day. Just sitting in our lounge and enjoying each others company, we reminisce about the day and relish how much we have accomplished.
-- Elizabeth Hayden
We did our best to keep our minds off the hard work though: discussing tons of movies (everyone’s top 5), getting to know the people that we were working with, enjoying an AMAZING bagpipe rendition of Amazing Grace from a volunteer at a nearby site, observing and talking to the residents of the neighborhood who were meanwhile watching us from their front porches, and cooling off with delicious snowballs that were being sold by the church right on the corner of the street.
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