Well so much for not procrastinating... 

I really needed this four day weekend! It was great. Even though I managed to leave my mountain of homework until today. DUMB. But whatever I can talk about my stupidity in another post I am not writing about it today. 

On Friday and Saturday I helped build houses through Habitat for Humanity. Doesn't that sound neat "I build houses"? Well I guess "build" is sort of exaggeration what I did. But it makes me sound more productive!

On Friday we (we refers to the group of kids who did Habitat for Humanity through Club Y.E.S) went to a house in New Hope. I sanded some walls in the downstairs bathroom. Then I cut off some dry wall and figured out that wasn't what I was supposed to do... Oops! So I had to fix my mistake... Then I helped cut some holes in a piece of sheet rock, that would soon make up part of  the wall in the bathroom, so some pipes could come through it. I also did some sweeping. I feel like I didn't do much... But hopefully I played at least a small role in building/fixing the house. :) 

Saturday we were in Columbia Heights. At this house we had to pick up the yard, put away scaffolding, bag leaves and twigs, etc. Then we working on painting the outside of the house. But we ran out of paint.... So we didn't get to finish. Once the top of the garage was painted (it got finished before we ran out of paint) we had to take down the scaffolding. We had done it earlier in the day too but oh my goodness, it is sort of a drag to take it down. There are planks that go across the scaffolding so people can walk on them and we had to move all of them into the garage since apparently they were valuable and people could steal them and sell the scraps... But it a pain. I working on doing this once the stakes were already pretty high and I had to wedge myself between the stacks and some wood and it just was not pleasant... 

I think habitat is a good program so I was glad I got to help out. But the consequences of doing it is now I am sore in the oddest places... Who knew building houses worked your armpit muscle?