Michelle

My friend Michelle is going to Ethiopia this summer on a missions trip. I am very proud of her. SH ewent with us to Mexico and was on my work crew for the house. I really hope she can go on Youthworks. I like her, and I like how she works. This will be fun.

Cody

I love my doggy. He's so cute. He's nicer than a bird, or a cat, or a fish, or a rabbit. I had a pet rat once. His name was Lightning. He bit me. I also had a pet snake, and his name was slither. I cried when we found him dead. It was awful. Haha, he was able to somewhat "climb" out of his thingy that he was in, so we had to keep clips on the lid, because he could lift the lid up, move it, and slither his way out of his cage. My little sister loved to hold our snake (we all did), and she never remembered to put the clips on so we would find him either in the kitchen, slithering around on the floor(we kept him near the kitchen before we got my dog), or on my bathroom floor (near where we kept him after we got my dog, because my dog would have attacked him if he was near him). It scared the crap out of my mama.

Title

I don't like it when I have to choose between agreeing with my friends, or my friends' parents. Like, I love my friends, and sometimes I disagree with them, but some of them have the kind of parents that you need them to like you or all the sudden you aren't friends any more. I don't like it!

Part Six

Well, this is part six, and I am tired of continuing this, but I made a commitment and it shall go on! Wednesday was cold as well, but still warmer than Tuesday. We used sun showers, which are essentially plastic bags you fill with water that have black on one side, and you stick them in the sun and they are supposed to get warm, but they don't really. And our shower enclosure had no roof so it had wind running through it while we took showers. It was SO cold. On Tuesday we had all the walls up on the house, and the roof, and we had the tar paper up on Wednesday, and the chicken wire. On the last day of work, Thursday, we mixed and put the stucco on the house. It was hard to do, but the good part was that we got a two and a half hour break while the first layer dried. We talked to the hiome owner (she was very forgiving of our bad Spanish - or mine, at least), we bought things from vendors (we promised them we would buy things on Thursday, they came around every day trying to sell things). It was good. The second layer of stucco was much easier to put on.

FIVE!

Tuesday was freezing! I just wanted to get back and sit near a fired and sleep. I sawed more on Tuesday. A lot more. Oh! what I forgot to mention was the fact that we have 10 hour days! Yay! We get to our worksite before eight and we don't leave until six or later. And I'm not even sure if I get credit for all ten hours of the four days.

Deshanique's Middle Name (Part Four)

So, after we set up camp in Mexico (which took forever by the way, camp for 62 people takes a long time), we had wrok crew meetings, dinner, a camp fire, and went to bed. The next morning we got up at six to get ready, make our lunches, and have breakfast to get out of there by 7:30. It took about 20 minutes to get to our worksite, so we were there before 8:00 in the morning. On Monday, the foundatiuon for our house was laid and we started building walls. It was hot and sunny that day; I got a sunburn on my scalp. I spent the almost the wholen day sawing 22 1/2 inch fireblocks for the walls, and my arm was hella tired by the end of the day. But for part of the day I also mixed cement. Mind you, we had no power tools or cement mixers, so the cement job was tiring. Good workout for your legs, if you do it right.

But I Play Football!

I dedicated this blog to Deshanique. She is the go after my bon. She is the dance floor on which I get down. She is the woman that has a hilarious picture in Castaneda's (Sp?) class on page 43 of the yearbook... check it out (and De loves parentheses). She made me laugh so hard today, and the laughs are still going on. I love her.