This last week and a half have been full of new things! Of course more painting on ladders and scaffolding, but I also tiled a bathroom, nailed in baseboards, patched a hole in dry wall, hung cabinets, used a table saw, chop saw and skill saw! The table saw was a little scary...Especially when I had to make an angled cut and took the guard off.. But all of my fingers are still here!
Yesterday was our last day of work, just fun this weekend and cleaning on Monday, leave Tuesday!
Last weekend we did an ISP at a school that was being condemned. It was pretty sad because they found out on a Friday and had to be out by the following Monday - only 48 hours to vacate the premises. It was 3 stories and did not have an elevator! We packed up classrooms and then moved A LOT of boxes downstairs for the movers to put in the truck the next day. This was a Charter school and they had smart boards (interactive white boards) and brand new Macbooks for every student. Oh and this was a K-3rd grade school...Yeah. Crazy.
I have met so many awesome people who work for Rebuilding Together and I will really miss seeing them! I've worked on about 7 different houses and heard heart wrenching stories from the homeowners. We also watched Spike Lee's documentary called When the Levees Broke. It was 4 hours of the impact of Hurricane Katrina and the following floods from the Levees breaking on the city of New Orleans. Some of the stories were so, so awful - people watching their family members dying before their eyes, the situation at the Superdome and the ridiculously slow response from the feds. People drowning in their attics as they tried to get to higher ground. People dying of heat stroke. Bodies floating all over the place. Homes picked up and moved a block away. Finding your parents or children in your home dead. People dying from not getting their meds. Having to leave your dead relatives on the side of the road because you have to flee. Getting on a plane to evacuate and not being told where you are even going until you land. And so many more stories that the movie touched on. Pretty awful. I couldn't imagine what that would have been like.
It started storming today and the streets are all flooding and we all got SOAKED coming back from Magazine St. The puddles in the street were knee deep! Just imagine another 15-20 feet on top of that from the Hurricane! Insane.
Well, I am hungry and want some dinner. :) So I MISS HOME, and can't wait to be back there!
