Brick Factory

Last week was spent experimenting with “papercrete” bricks, which are bricks made out of paper, concrete, and sand. It is supposed to be a more “green” way of building something, but our sponsors are not sure which recipe is the best with the materials we have, so we have been playing around with different amounts of each ingredient. It was pretty fun, and once we find the “perfect mixture” we will make a lot of them and hopefully get to build something with them?! Mollie, Mario and I also did a recruiting event at Briar Crest Christian School yesterday, which was awesome! We found out when we left that it was the school that Michael Ohr (The Blind Side) went to! That area of Tennessee is so nice! It was a really wealthy area with huge mansions all around and there were at least 3 Hummers, 6 new Mustangs, and a whole bunch of other really nice cars parked in the parking lot. We were only there for about 30 minutes, but there were a handful of students who seemed interested, so that was good. Today we planted a bunch of trees all day, and there was a ABC news camera filming us for awhile, so we might be on TV! Over the weekend, since I was actually with my team this time and not with a visitor (bittersweet), we went out to dinner at Olive Garden one night, and to the movies another night, which was really fun! We saw The Eagle, which was super gory and lots of battle scenes, but it was okay, because Channing Tatum was in it! Haha We also got our list of projects for our final round and we will be putting them in order soon…the ones I’m interested in are in North Carolina, Florida, and Virginia…so we shall see what we get!