Back In The Swing of Things

Today I woke up and felt, in the words of Larry David, pretty, pretty, pretty good. I had signed up the night before to do rubble at St. Martin. In the morning, people were coming up to me asking if I was the team leader. I said no, not that I knew of. They said "your name is in the first slot. The first slot means you are the team leader."

So, I was the team leader.

I think I did an ok job. We got to the site, and it was in a lot behind another house that we had to walk through an alley to get to. There was a creek behind the site. It was filled with trash. Kids were wading in it. Behind the creek, there was a farm. There were pigs and goats, and they were eating trash.

We got started with sledgehammers and bashed the home to bits. It was actually really fun. Everyone on the team took out whatever frustrations that they had on this home. We took the entire structure down and started to haul some of it out to the street to dump. We eventually ran out of room by the end of the day. There is alot more rubble to clear, but we don't have a spot to put it in, so we aren't going back tomorrow.

Tonight I signed up to build hospital shelves with Jim. I look forward to that. He's a good guy to work with. Additionally, it is my last day working at Project Leogane. I am very excited to come home. I've got alot of work to do when I get back to the office.

Tonight for dinner we had goat and hot dogs and white sweet potatoes. It wasn't bad, but I didn't like it much either.

Til tomorrow.