So this is a blog about my experience with Habitat for Humanity for my senior spring break trip. I am a senior at Eastern University (up near Philadelphia) and I decided to use my spring break to go on a missions trip and I really wanted to work with Habitat for Humanity. So here I am in Greensboro, NC building a house! Who woulda thunk it?! I love working with my hands and building things but I am working on building a house!
Yesterday around 8 am we piled into a big van and a mini van (13 of us) and headed down the long drive to North Carolina. We made excellent timing and played tons of games on the way down. Well we tried to just stump each other with riddles.
We arrived at the house we are staying at for the week and it is gorgeous! Just amazing! We are staying at a local sponsor of Habitat's house and the property covers about 200 acres and there is a full size basketball court, game lodge, fire pit and rope swings. We are staying in cabins that have heat and very spify showers ;) (gotta love clean bathrooms) And the beds are super comfy and the food we have been fed here makes me not want to go back to the food in the dinning commons at school.
Ok, back to the work. We had a great night sleep (on the super comfy beds) and got up and headed out to the work site. This week we are working on a house called the House of the Three Sisters. Three sisters are donating this house to Habitat for a family to live in. We met Matt, who is the construction leader, Merritt and Clark (aka Big Daddy- his nickname) and we got to work. A bunch of us started on framing and two of the guys went and worked on floor plans. We worked hard and I am sure that my right arm is going to be much bigger than my left because of hammering so many nails. But I got the hammer swing down and I also learned how to rock a construction helmet! We stopped for an amazing lunch (brought by some of the Habitat board members) catered by Jimmy Johns. Then after a nice break with subs, chips and some great chocolate chip cookies we got back to work. By the end of the day we got 4 walls up! It looked so cool to have them up by the end. It seemed slow in the beginning and did not feel like we were getting far but once the walls were up....it looked GOOD!
So amazing to think that we did all of that! The day was filled with tons of laughs and jokes. After finishing we headed back to our cabins and got cleaned up and headed to dinner. We were blessed to be hosted by one of the local members of the Habitat board at their beautiful house. They were so welcoming and excited to have us there. There was chili and rice that was oh so delicious! (don't forget the salad) Then we finished off our meal with some cake, with some strawberry filling, can't go wrong with that! They allowed us to venture up to their third floor (that's right third floor!!) and play come pool, basketball and just hang out in their game room. It was so nice of them to open their home for us. The food was delicious and they were so hospitable and friendly to 13 college students from the north.
We are now back at our cabins and a bunch of people are busy working on homework for school. It is weird to think that we will be back to classes in a week. Well I for one am going to savor all of this and just thank God for all that He has been blessing us with this week! Oh wait it's only Monday!
Can not wait for tomorrow! Well...I am off to make some smore's around the campfire and head to bed to be refueled for another adventure tomorrow.
Ciao!
picture of the end product of our first day:
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