The week is over, finally. We only have 6 days until we go home and I can't wait! Last week was a short work week, because it snowed for a whole 4 minutes and that is cause for the entire city to shut down. So, we got sent back to the camp to wait out the harsh winter storm. With our spare time we went out to lunch, then to the Boys and Girls Club. I now have 28 ISP hours!!
On Friday, we went to a new work site in Gulfport. Our goal for the day was to install all of the windows and deck the porch. We got neither done. The problem filled day started with us realizing that the windows didn't fit in the walls, they were to big. The only way to fix the windows was to use a circular saw and saw the window frames on the side and on the top. Brad, our supervisor was doing the sawing when he got a chunk of wood in his eye. He had to be driven to the doctors and took the rest of the day off, understandably. That left us with Aaron our AmeriCorps State member. He has about 6 months of construction experience, which is enough to get by, but not enough to know the answers to everything. He took over the sawing and sawed the sides and bottoms of the window frames. Then we went around and screwed all of the windows in. We had to screw at an up angle in order for the screws to hit wood. We screwed up, literally and figuratively. By screwing at an up angle, we bowed the windows causing them not to close. Then we realized that by Aaron cutting the bottoms and not the tops of the window frames, there was no room for the window sills. Major problem. To solve all of the problems, we had to unscrew the windows, remove the window ledges, cut the cripples, make new ledges, re-screw in the window and make sure it wasn't bowed. A normal window should take about 4 minutes to install. We spent 7 hours and we only got one window installed properly. We spent all day Saturday fixing our windows and installing another house of windows. It took 6 of us 2 days to install 14 windows...
Today, I hung around the Camp and then went grocery shopping with the team. I never knew how stressful grocery shopping can be. I truly feel people sweat the small stuff way too much. It truly doesn't matter what brand of bread we get. My new theory is that grocery shopping should never be done in groups larger than 2. Tonight, we went to the Seahawks Minor League Hockey game. The tickets were only $11 and it was a great game. The home team lost by 1 point, but there were at least 2 fights and one player was suspended from the game. To make the game even better, our TL, Nick, won the split the pot raffle. He won $194 from a ticket that cost him $1. Despite our begging, he did not take us out to dinner.
Tomorrow we have PT at 11am and then a team meeting to discuss the ridiculous amount of tension about ridiculously stupid and little things.
Love, Peace, and Happiness,
Catherine
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Well, I have no winning tickets, but I have an ice-coated sidewalk and an alley that could be used as a skating rink. The bitter north winds will bring temperatures to zero tonight. A bon fire with marshmallows and hot chocolate would certainly warm things up. We're counting the days to your visit.
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