Well round 4 started off a little different than we all thought it was going to... We were told that we were to go to Corinth (pronounced core-inth), Mississippi to respond to a flood disaster. We got all suited up in our respirators, gloves, boots, and coveralls. Overall we mucked out 20 apartments and about 15 houses. Gross, Gross work. But it was cool to do something different! Our sponsors were awesome, we ate dinner at a different church every night and had all of our meals prepared for us. They even did our laundry every 2-3 days! We were definitely spoiled. Our housing was an arena...which was pretty cool. Of course being the South, boys and girls had to be separated. So us eight ladies lived on one side while the four boys were separated by a thin little curtain you could see through! We had a cable and a DVD player too. We thought we were going to be there longer than we were, but it ended up only being 2 weeks.
Here are some pictures from the mucking:
NOW we really are on our final stretch! Only 4.5 weeks left before we head back to Denver. We are back in New Orleans, living 4 houses down from where we were first round. The heat and humidity is really getting to all of us.. I have countless bug bites and I might melt before this is over. It is in the 90's, but with humidity it feels like 105-110 degrees. Miserable! We are with Water 3, so all of our friends are just a few houses down. Most of the work is pretty similar to first round, a little more building things because we are working more with DeCon. (This is the team of people that go in and salvage materials to sell from the damaged houses.) But nothing too overly exciting in New Orleans. Still an awesome city, but it is slowing sucking the life out of us with this weather! There are thunderstorms almost every afternoon too... Not sure how that is even possible, but here we are.
Nikki and I in all of our sweaty glory!
I miss everyone and I will see you all soooo soon and I am stoked to be back in Cali! And don't worry, I won't leave again for a while! (minus my travel addiction that will probably pull me away for a week or two - but that can't be avoided!)
Love you all!
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