Nate Visits Greensboro!

Where to start!? First of all, the craziness with the budget and everything was such a stressful time for my time and me especially! If the budget wasn't passed (or if AmeriCorps wasn't IN the budget), we would all be sent back to campus in Vicksburg to pack up and leave...immediately--And Nate was coming that same evening! I was freaking out because I thought that we would be sent back to MS that morning, and Nate would be in NC that night, with a hotel room and rental car and I wouldn't even be able to see him :( But thank goodness everything worked out and I got to spend the weekend with him! His flight got cancelled due to weather in Newark, so I got to spend an extra day with him, which was also really great! We drove around and hit up all the free things in the area, the Botanical Gardens, Bog Garden, National Military Park, and then went to the movies twice, to see Source Code and Hanna (both were really good but pretty intense!) We also went out to eat a lot (of course) and we even got to go out with his cousin who lives in Greensboro one night! It was a wonderful visit and really nice to see a familiar face from home.
As far as work goes, I absolutely LOVE working for Habitat and all of the awesome people we are working with! We have been setting up lots of scaffolding to do roofing (I have yet to actually get on the roof...I spend my time being on the set-up crew instead!) and we even cleaned out a crawl space under a house one day....we found lots of spiders and dead rats...gross! But our site supervisor, Richie wouldn't let me out of the crawl space job, since I got out of going up on the roof :-p Our housing is great, I'm still getting internet and we are currently eating dinner that a local church brought for us and watching TV, so life is good :)