“I NEED AN ADULT!” New Orleans Day 2!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day from New Orleans!
FIrst, we are going to begin by explaining what we’re doing here, as we neglected to address this in our earlier post.
Our team of 15 students is led by Josh “fearless leader” Stevenson, Professor Kevin “Can I have a piece of that?” Tuthill, Doug “One-way” Pottle, and Bill “I hate Sonic” Abely. We are spending these 6 days building houses for Habitat for Humanity. There are two main projects going on currently: half of us are painting the interior of one house, and half of us are next door lying upside-down under the house, installing insulation and other things.
We would also really like to reflect on the term “alternative spring break.” Both of us have a hard time with this term: by saying “alternative,” it sounds like what we are choosing to do during our break is not the norm, a second choice…like saying there is no alternative left but to do this for our break after our other choices were exhausted. We think that we can really speak for the whole group by saying that we’re having an amazing time, and would really prefer to do this for the rest of the week than go to an island and sunbathe.
Since the weather is nice, we’re starting to meet people in the neighborhood and are really excited to get to know everyone. We’re also most excited about the Dedication that we get to see on Thursday (someone is getting to see their finished house and moving in!)
The highlights of last night/today:
Painting “Professor” Kevin’s back, meeting the guys from Americorps, learning what a one-way street sign means, realizing the importance of “listening” to our GPS system, Doug sunbathing on the driveway, killing GIGANTIC mosquitoes, and learning to “cut in” the ceiling and the meaning of a Po-boy. We also finally moved from 2 houses to 1, so with 4-5 in a room we feel much more bonded as a group.
Anyway, we’re going to go enjoy the sun before dinner and a bonfire 🙂
Wish us luck on tonight’s crazy outing,
Marissa Ferber ’09 and Melissa Diranian ’11