Well today was our fourth day serving, and our second with Habitat. Today we accomplished the feat or "finishing" our house. And by this I mean that we have all the frame work on the inside finished, with all the studs in place, and all the "dead wood" nailed in, as well as the doors and windows caulked & insulated, and the outside of the house wrapped!!!!!! I cannot express the joy, relief, frustration, and even a little pain that I felt as I drove my last nail into this house. Seeing the inside take shape and figuring what each room was over these last few days was exciting. When we started it was just four walls and a few wall frames, but now it actually looked like a home.
The best part of finishing the framework of the home was when we got to "tag" the beams and walls with our encouraging messages and personal touches of who helped build this. This creative liberty was much needed after multiple days of repetitive hammering. Although our job is finished with our first house, we still have one more day of service left, so tomorrow we will be heading to another house across the yard from ours to help finish establishing the framework on it.
After we wrapped for the day, we came back to the church to have our meeting and get ready for dinner. Tonight we went to the island and ate at Peg Leg Pete's for dinner, and enjoyed the great seafood they had. After that we went back to the beach, this time in darkness with the tide & a storm rolling in. The waves were larger than before, but that did not stop us from sticking our toes (and most of our lower extremities) in the water, for one last time. We had a blast and enjoyed it, even if it was a little cool.
I have enjoyed myself so much on this trip, from the work we've done to the relationships I have built with my fellow Tigers. It will be bittersweet tomorrow when we wrap for the last time on the trip, but I know I have made some amazing memories that will last forever.
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