Guest blog today! This is filler until I can complete the post on my own :)
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On Wednesday, June 4th, we awoke to a lovely breakfast of oatmeal and fresh blueberries. One of my favorites so far. After doing dishes and packing our sack lunches we hit the road to walk to our build site again. We are working with the St Bernard Project, and being led by some fantastic AmeriCorps volunteers named Amy and Jack. Today, I became an expert at what is called "floating." This is a process where you spackle a product we call "mud" onto areas of drywall that need to be smoothed or covered. I was in no way comfortable with this process at the beginning but then became very good at adjusting my angles and pressure to create the smoothest lines. I worked with Morgan, Kirsten and Liz on this project upstairs for most of the day. In the afternoon, we got to steal the boom box from the downstairs volunteers which made our work so much more fun with music. There may have also been
a bit of dancing involved. We packed and cleaned up at the end of the work day and headed back to Camp Hope where it was also cleaning day. We had to clean the bathrooms, kitchen, and the showers. Afterwards, we were treated to a traditional Cajun dinner and a night on the town.
Hannah Crawford
Rider, SUS'14
On Wednesday, June 4th, we awoke to a lovely breakfast of oatmeal and fresh blueberries. One of my favorites so far. After doing dishes and packing our sack lunches we hit the road to walk to our build site again. We are working with the St Bernard Project, and being led by some fantastic AmeriCorps volunteers named Amy and Jack. Today, I became an expert at what is called "floating." This is a process where you spackle a product we call "mud" onto areas of drywall that need to be smoothed or covered. I was in no way comfortable with this process at the beginning but then became very good at adjusting my angles and pressure to create the smoothest lines. I worked with Morgan, Kirsten and Liz on this project upstairs for most of the day. In the afternoon, we got to steal the boom box from the downstairs volunteers which made our work so much more fun with music. There may have also been
a bit of dancing involved. We packed and cleaned up at the end of the work day and headed back to Camp Hope where it was also cleaning day. We had to clean the bathrooms, kitchen, and the showers. Afterwards, we were treated to a traditional Cajun dinner and a night on the town.
Hannah Crawford
Rider, SUS'14
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