oh disaster

so im back from disaster. i sat out hurricane Gustav and Ike. Gustav came on the day after my birthday. so i spent on birthday getting ready to set up shelters in Alexandria, LA. i spent the 1st of September to the 5th in a shelter that was only to last a day but end up staying there for 5 days. we never last any power. as the eye was over us i was on the phone with my mom asking her where the eye was and any news on the storm. after the storm passed us i was staying at a hotel for the remaining of my two weeks. then when Ike came i was sent to the coliseum to work the night shift. 9 at night to 9 in the morning. that was tough. but though the whole time i had wounder full people around me. when we had off we would go out to eat and just hang out. i had a great time!

disaster!!!

Okay. with all of the talk of Hurricane Gustav. I'm going on disaster. I fly out at 12 tomorrow. I flying to Baton Rouge. after that i dont where i will be staying. Insnt this a great birthday weekend?!?! really nervous!!! Im not going to lie. i better go to bed soon. im relly tired. night.

Augusta Georgia

So right now we are staying Augusta Georgia. I dont have much time to update. i have to shower and go to bed. we are getting upo at 6 to be on the road at 6:30. It is a 9-11 hour drive.
later

The high life

so all morning i spent my time in this lift. scraping, caulking and putting putty in holes. exciting!!!!! the house that we having working on belongs to the church. so we are fixing it up so that they can rent out the apartments and get some money from them. we are painting the house a bright tarp like blue with white trim and some dark blue for the details. right now that we just have the trap like blue so far in the house.




Heather and James on the lift yesterday. yay them!!!!!


a lizard on our gate to our backyard.


me on the lift taking a picture.


me again on the lift taking a picture. This time i was about halfway up the side of the house. it's a two story house.


the pigeons now watch our every move that we make. they are pissed at us for blocking up the entrance to their home. one day while we worked, i swear, they are going to attack us.


my boots!!! see how purdy they are!!!! that the blue that we are painting the house.


me on posing on the lift. with my handy scrapers.


anther lizard on the work site.


me, acting silly. i was waiting for alex to come back from getting something. and yes sun has really lighten my hair. the strikes that i put in my hair is lighter. they look really blounde in this picture.

New Jersey!!!

so these last couple of days we have been doing a lot of scraping.

me trying to take a picture of me scraping the house.


hearther working hard.


Me at the back of the house.


chris playing with he's new toy. we have had since about ether friday or monday.



me and heather were on a lift scraping the the side of the house today.

here she is with one of the volunteers.



me and heather were on a lift scraping the the side of the house. really not much else to say about that. tomorrow we should be able to paint the house blue. and boy is the paint blue.


the volunteers. three of them are from belgium. one is from spain, one italy, and three are from china.


amanda is all most done finishing it.









chris told us where are next project is. it's in camden, new jersey. working with camp sun n fun. more info on that later.

Wrath of the pigeons

Me and Heather on Pigeon shit duty Wednesday. We had to rip a ceiling down because pigeons got the in ceiling and it smelled so bad. And as were taking down the ceiling we had Pigeon Shit falling on us. Not Fun.




This is were they were coming in and setting in. There is another hole like this one that we need to cover.



As we were ripping down the sheetrock. it was just crumbling, because the pigeon shit went and ruined the sheetrock.



This little guy is Alfred who we found. James was his Mama. And he was the best Pigeon mama ever!! Alfred died on Friday Morning.


This is the apartment that we were working on with all the pigeon shit everywhere. As it was raining that day fun. Ripping down a ceiling with pigeon shit in the rain.


The neighborhood that i live in. If you look closely you can tell that the blue building in abandoned. Not unusual in new orleans.


Estell the pigeon watching us as we remove the pigeon shit from the apartment.


Our house that we live in with no pluming still. And lovley Heather in that shot.



Chris being Chris at lunch. What more can i say.


The mural that is on the back of our house. We are working with the coolest people ever. These girls are from Vermont. One of them is a art teacher and one a math teacher. They went to 80's night with us.


Before


After. Almost done.


Heather and Alex being entertaining. We live a sad life. We get so happy when we get new tools. Even if they are pencils or painters tape, scrapers. Things in that nature. The little things. lol



Even trips to home depot after,Pigeon shit duty is fun. Brooke on the "titanic" singing my heart will go on. can you not just feel the love from this picture.


Thursday at a school helping them get ready for the school year. We did this almost all day. that and moving desks in different rooms.


again the small things.


that was a fun day with the tennis balls.

and yes i said pigeon shit 5 times. well now 6 times.

Slow and steady

Today we finish sliding a house that we have been working on. The front and one of the side is all done. As we had Heather and Alex on the very tall ladders putting up the sliding. While me, Brooke and Ryan (who just volunteering with us for the next couple of days) scraped the house, so we can paint it with a new coat. Then we took painter's putty and filled in any cracks or holes. It was the longest day ever.

From New Orleans 2

The sweet old lady across the street had made us Red beans and rice for lunch. It was so good.
seems like today i took more pictures then anything.

From New Orleans 2

We did finish painting this house. Looks nice. We had to get up on ladders and do all the detail work. That was a head ache and scary.

For the rest of the pictures go here. Both albums are listed on the side.

Team!!!

From New Orleans

We've been cleaning a lot. This week we've put up sliding. Today I opened a can of some kind of paint and me and anther girl almost DIED!!!! well maybe I'm being way too dramatic. It was more like ran away from the scene. GROSS It smelled like dead animal. Sorry. Then we went over to paint a house. Yay more paint!! Thats about it really. nothing too exciting.

From New Orleans

And we made team p.t shirts. I was glad every one was having fun. I don't have picture. I was to busy helping our TL with his shirt. I had to tell them rules about what not to do. like throwing wet t-shirts at each other. They were good about it. I'm proud. lol I'll have pictures later with the shirts.

From New Orleans

Gutting, Tours and MY FINGER!!!

We have been painting houses a lot. last week i led a gutting crew with one of my other team members and we also took a tour of the 9th ward. Now this week we are organizing everything for when we get a ton of volunteers. Monbday we went to a amanail shelter and walked dogs and played with puppies. FUN!! Then today I went though a apartment that had a whole bunch of things donated to United Saints. I took pictures and moved boxes and furniture. Then i put it the furniture on cragslist. And while moving mirrors i took a chuck out of my finger. OW. Not like ow i hurt my finger, it was more like OWWWW I TOOK A CHUCK OFF OF MY FINGER OWWWW!!!


I have a whole bunch of picture but i have'nt had time to upload them. I have had a lot of things going on.
Here is the new link for all of my pic. i will still keep up the old one. Picsa

Really?

So we made it. We are here in our little house. We have a kitchen that has no plumbing a bathroom with no plumbing ether. really? Then we have a a living room and the two bed rooms are connected. so the girls have to go though the guys room. Did i mention that we have two A/C's. Really? Come on. It is fudgin hot!!!! Really!?!?! It's small. Hot. And we have to run across the street to the church so that we can shower and to pee. nice. And we all ready have A/C gremlin. That some one is truning down the A/C in the girls room and that room is the hottest room in the house. I will not put up with that. I will sleep on the kitchen floor or on the floor of the guys room since though two places are the coolest. No way ever! I'm done with that. If it's too cold then cover up with a blanket but dont make other people suffer because your two cold. three vs. one. Three bets one. Really.