Weekend Catch-Up

Saturday we worked at a community garden, pulling weeds and cleaning up the area as a 9/11 service project. It was pretty fun and we only worked half a day, and there were some adorable middle school kids there that we got to work with :) I had a great convo with the 2 youngest/cutest little boys there that went something like this:
me: hey boys, whatre you doing for work? guarding the cookies? (they were eating cookies all day instead of working)
boys: oh yeah, we are guarding them real good
me: so how old are you boys anyway? like 16?
boys: haha oh yeah, actually 14...nahhhh we are 12!
me: ohhh, coulda fooled me! so do you have girlfriends?
boys: oh heck yeah, of course! (hahahaha so cute)
me: oh yeah? do you impress them with your big muscles? I bet you work out at the gym at least 3 times a week
boys: oh yeah, we work out plenty for the ladies
----later that day----
boys: so is there gonna be like news crews here or anything?
me: there might be, i'm not sure though...is that why you are here? to become famous and get on tv? (in a joking way)
boys: nahhh, i'm not into publicity...i just came here to help out the community
me: awwwwwww that is the most perfect, cutest answer ever!!
end of story...thought it was cute though so i wanted to share with ya'll!
Sunday we went to Catholic church (mass?) which was neat, except I felt kind of out of my element, because I didn't know all of the rituals and sayings that everyone around me did. It was a beautiful building though! Then last night we volunteered at the Adam Lambert concert, which was amazing! Most people on my team were ushers, but I was a ticket scanner, which I was nervous about at first, but ended up LOVING it! I chatted with all of the people in line, complimented their outfits, explained what the "A" on my uniform was all about, got lots of "thank you for what you do!"'s and I even caught myself say "how y'all doing tonight?" to a group! That made me so excited, because I didn't even plan of saying y'all! It just happened naturally! Woo!
Monday (today) we didn't have to be into work until 11, so we slept in, which was awesome!! Then we had an all-staff meeting where we got broken up into new teams just for today and got sent out to different work sites to work alongside the staff and people higher up in the St. Bernard Project organization. I was sent to a trailer (which is rare, it is usually a house) that was so badly ruined by katrina that it was actually used in the Terminator movie (or some movie like that) because of all the termites and cockroaches that were infesting it! Ewww! So anyways, they had to clean out the entire house and basically just use the shell and rebuild everything else inside to actually make it livable. So we just hung drywall for a few hours, which was neat because that was the one thing we hadn't learned yet. Yay for learning new things! After that, we went to another welcome home party for a family whose house just got finished..and instead of NFL players being there, this time there were 20 world-renowned chefs cooking dinner....including 2 of the WHITEHOUSE CHEFS as in PRESIDENT OBAMA'S!!! The only bad thing about the amazing chef's was that they were only cooking seafood...which I don't eat! BUT two of my teammates MADE me try the ALLIGATOR, which was actually delicious and tasted like chicken, but since it wasn't chicken, I couldn't bring myself to eat more than 1 piece! Haha. So many amazing things have been happening lately, its super exciting! THEN the night got even better, because Mikki and Bruce are traveling around on a roadtrip and came to visit me tonight!! I just got back from eating Chinese food with them! Oh man, this day was amazing...it was so awesome to see Mikki and feel more connected to home!