What A Disaster!

It has been a wicked busy week, if you haven't noticed from my lack of blogging lately, my apologies! Most of the week was spent at the Toledo house where we continued to get trained in various construction skills, including putting in a vinyl floor in a bathroom (which was awesome, cause it was like putting giant stickers on the floor!), sanding, mudding, priming, painting, and teaching another group of my teammates how to put wood flooring in. It was neat to be the teacher and explain to them how to put the floor in, because it proved to me that I actually did know what I was doing :) Thursday was most of ours last day working at Johnny Toledo's house, because we got sent on "disaster duty" on Friday, so Johnny cooked lunch for all of us on Thursday and it was delicious! Of course I didn't try the popcorn shrimp or the other options with seafood, but the homemade french fries and garlic bread were amazing! There were also only 10 of us workers there and 10 staff from the St. Bernard Project showed up when they heard about free food too! Haha, we don't even know how they heard about the food, but they were all there!
So Friday was every bit of a DISASTER, for sure...we had to unload 2 truck loads of boxes of cleaning wipes for oil spill reasons, and we were supposed to only be there from 9am-2pm, but we ended up being there from 9-5:30! We had been unloading the boxes for 2 hours before the woman in charge came out and in the rudest way possible told us that we were doing it wrong and got all crazy and started throwing boxes off the truck and creating the most stressful/hectic environment (the kind that I do not do well in!) and we all got frazzled and exhausted and everyone was in a bad mood by lunch time and didn't want to finish unloading another truck! But we persevered and by the end of the longest work day ever, we felt so relieved and amazing for having finished what previously seemed like an impossible task, that it made it all kind of worth it (but not really).
Saturday we had in ISP (independent service project) where we volunteer for different nonprofits in the area, where we did some random gardening and fixing fences, painting, etc. for a couple houses in the 7th Ward in New Orleans. It was fun to be outside and do some different things than normal, and we got done at 1! After that we took a group shopping trip to find cute clothes (because I am sick of all my clothes that I brought with me already, I want more of a variety!) and I had no luck, so I ended up with a sweet $7 shirt from Wal*Mart that says "Gansta saurus" hahhaah I got lots of compliments on it last night!
One of the other AmeriCorps teams (River 7) came to New Orleans this weekend to visit us! And Auntie Beth, Linda, and Diane are here too! So I will get to see them soon! I love visitors! (hint hint) haha :)