Where to begin? A lot has happened in the past two days so I am going to try to be as brief as possible. Half of Thursday was spent at the work site putting up roof boards, hammering, hammering and just hammering. You would probably think that I have use the word hammering too much, but there is not a good enough way to express how much we hammered. Every single thing we did, apart from loading and unloading our truck, involved hammering. At the end of our work day, we had finished putting nails every 6 inches around the house and part of the roof.
We also went on a citrus picking trip… yeah! Luther, one of the founders of Habitat for Humanity in Dade City, was really impressed with the work we had done on Monday, so he invited us to his citrus orchid to pick as many fruits as we could. We ate most of the time because they were so good, and we picked a variety for our trip back home.
The better part of our evening was spent with the care-a-vanners. They are a group of retired people who drive their RVs around the country, volunteering for a couple of months at different Habitat for Humanity camps. We had a wonderful evening filled with stories, music, words of encouragement, chili and loads of desserts. It was a fun evening I tell you, and we got to learn quite a ton from these dedicated care-a-vanners.
I also learned that the Habitat for Humanity home owners get the houses after they have volunteered 400 hrs, 200 of which goes to the building of their own houses. Kristiana, the volunteer coordinator, told me that the more hours the home owners volunteer, the faster their names move up the list. I thought that this was a very good deal, and I guess that it makes other volunteers feel better when they know that the home owners are working as hard to build their homes.
-Peace (Florida)
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