This is My Spring Break
Day 3:
Let me start of by saying I have learned to greatly appreciate where I am from. The water here is yellow, smells terrible, and tastes as it smells. The shower curtain has mold and the floors are dirty. It is not a Hilton Inn. Today we woke up at 6:30 and began our days. We arrived to the work site at 8:00am and stood around until 9:00. Everyone from UPS started making games and singing and doing chants during the hour, while all the other groups just stood around talking. I think thats just UPS for ya. UPS and a group from New Hampshire were together working on one house. There were 7 houses on site and 200 volunteers- not good planning. While it is great and you can get so much done with all the help, it is also overwhelming and workers either don't know what to do, or they do the wrong thing. Oversight is crucial and that was just not happening. A group of us were building walls and we finished all the interior ones so we decided to continue and build the fire walls. This took about 2 hours and we had several people watch us and stop by to help us. Not once did the manager or Americore workers tell us we were wrong, until we were done. The fire walls had to be build with different wood apparently, so we unassembled all the walls, and put them back together with the right wood. It was terribly frustrating. At the end of the day though, we framed an entire half of a house. That is a ton of wood and work and lifting and pounding. I felt accomplished. I think it was fun to do physical labor. At the end of the day, I was exhausted, I had a sunburn and a few bug bites, but I wouldn't trade this spring break for anything else. I truly appreciate where I am from, but I now know the south isn't near as bad as I pictured it.
Let me start of by saying I have learned to greatly appreciate where I am from. The water here is yellow, smells terrible, and tastes as it smells. The shower curtain has mold and the floors are dirty. It is not a Hilton Inn. Today we woke up at 6:30 and began our days. We arrived to the work site at 8:00am and stood around until 9:00. Everyone from UPS started making games and singing and doing chants during the hour, while all the other groups just stood around talking. I think thats just UPS for ya. UPS and a group from New Hampshire were together working on one house. There were 7 houses on site and 200 volunteers- not good planning. While it is great and you can get so much done with all the help, it is also overwhelming and workers either don't know what to do, or they do the wrong thing. Oversight is crucial and that was just not happening. A group of us were building walls and we finished all the interior ones so we decided to continue and build the fire walls. This took about 2 hours and we had several people watch us and stop by to help us. Not once did the manager or Americore workers tell us we were wrong, until we were done. The fire walls had to be build with different wood apparently, so we unassembled all the walls, and put them back together with the right wood. It was terribly frustrating. At the end of the day though, we framed an entire half of a house. That is a ton of wood and work and lifting and pounding. I felt accomplished. I think it was fun to do physical labor. At the end of the day, I was exhausted, I had a sunburn and a few bug bites, but I wouldn't trade this spring break for anything else. I truly appreciate where I am from, but I now know the south isn't near as bad as I pictured it.
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