Rebuilding Week: Day 1

On Tuesday, we were up bright & early to get to work. Our team of 30 was split into three groups with one student leader per group. My team was Team Mike and we actually worked on two sites over the week. Our first day was finishing a dining room for a man named Isaac. The roof has been ruined during the storm. It wasn't fixed properly and every time it rained, his dining room would flood. A team had come in to fix the roof & the ceiling. Now, we went to finish the molding and paint the ceiling.



Beth & Grace( a fellow Theta) staining the molding


The owner had a dog named Caramel, which you know I played with during the day.


Beth & I working on the molding



Me, Grace, G, and Taylor

We worked all day 830-4. Afterwards, we took turns making dinner for the group. The first night was our team night to cook. We made pasta, salad, garlic bread, and had cookies for dessert!





Team Mike dinner, a success!

After dinner, we all just hung around in the big room. We played games and talked. It was like summer camp! We also gathered every night to discuss how well the day went, our thoughts on rebuiliding, the people we met, etc. There are a lot of mixed feelings in going down there to rebuild. A lot of questions like why are people still living in trailers 5 years after the storm? Can this happen again? Why are we rebuilding if this could happen again? Why do people still want to live down here?