Monday, August 11, 2008

Day Two-First Day on the Worksite

We got our house assignments early this morning. Our team (Team 2-Me, Molly, Meadow, Conor, Garratt, Michael, Dan and Milady) has a house further away from the others. Contrary to what we believed, we will not be drywalling the house because the plumbing and electrical work is not done yet. However, we will be working on the roof, staircase, and finishing putting up the studs, that drywall will be later put over. We spent our day today doing a bit of repair work from the previous team working in our house, who didn't seem to have as much experience with construction as we do. We also came across a dog who followed us around our worksite. He was very sweet and we named him Frank.





Our house



Nailing in studs


And after work today, we went to see the swamps of New Orleans....



Ahh! A baby alligator!


The swamps

A real alligator

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, cute dog, and cool aligator!
Good to hear from you Julia..
glad you have met nice people so far.

Hope your foot feels okay.. =)

The WordSmith from Nantucket said...

Julia,

Have I ever told you how awesome you are?

Glad Frank made it into the video.


Don't forget to find the time somewhere, to squeeze in some jack-knives and handstands. Don't lose your free hip shoulder strength! Lift some paint buckets or something!

The WordSmith from Nantucket said...

and cool aligator!

Yeah....would make a really nice suitcase and wallet.

(Just kiddin'!)

Don't go trying to stick your head in its jaws to prove how tough you are, Julia.

Julia said...

sorry I can't spell alligator >_<

and I did some yesterday, michael, for real! hahaa, and I stretched my splits :)