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So... after 50+ hours spent driving to FL in a crampt mini-van, I've returned. =) Florida was amazing. Not only have I never been there, so it was cool to see a new state... but working for habitat was an amazing experience, and the weather we had was so lovely and warm... it was so hard to come back to the coldness of michigan.
going down there, i really didnt know what to expect. I knew that i was going to be helping build a home for a family less fortunate than my own... but i really didnt know what that entailed. We got there on sunday night, and monday morning bright and early at 7 am, we departed on our journey to the habitat house. We spent monday, tues, thurs and fri working on the house, and managed, at the end, to be able to stand back and look at the roof that we had literately just put over this families' heads. It was so amazing to see that if i put my mind to something, i could succeed... even if it was something that i wasn't familier with (hammering, nailing, drilling, roofing... etc. lol) i made myself go up on the roof and nail down the pieces of plywood that we put up-- i knew that i'd never get another chance for something this amazing, and thus semi-conquered my fear of heights. i felt kinda stupid, crying my way down, but at the end, i knew that i did an amazing job, and i had really helped this team of amazing people.
this experience has been something that's really hard to put into words. i sort of felt like last year's ASB trip was more rewarding, but then i realized that they were both really rewarding in different ways. last year, i knew that i had made an emotional impact on the children that i was working with. this year, instead of making an emotional impact, i made a physical one, by literately putting a roof over someones head.
in between the times working for habitat, we got to explore the city a bit, and go to the beach a few times... it was such a great vacation, that was so exhaustingly worth every minute. all in all, it was such a great experience.
going down there, i really didnt know what to expect. I knew that i was going to be helping build a home for a family less fortunate than my own... but i really didnt know what that entailed. We got there on sunday night, and monday morning bright and early at 7 am, we departed on our journey to the habitat house. We spent monday, tues, thurs and fri working on the house, and managed, at the end, to be able to stand back and look at the roof that we had literately just put over this families' heads. It was so amazing to see that if i put my mind to something, i could succeed... even if it was something that i wasn't familier with (hammering, nailing, drilling, roofing... etc. lol) i made myself go up on the roof and nail down the pieces of plywood that we put up-- i knew that i'd never get another chance for something this amazing, and thus semi-conquered my fear of heights. i felt kinda stupid, crying my way down, but at the end, i knew that i did an amazing job, and i had really helped this team of amazing people.
this experience has been something that's really hard to put into words. i sort of felt like last year's ASB trip was more rewarding, but then i realized that they were both really rewarding in different ways. last year, i knew that i had made an emotional impact on the children that i was working with. this year, instead of making an emotional impact, i made a physical one, by literately putting a roof over someones head.
in between the times working for habitat, we got to explore the city a bit, and go to the beach a few times... it was such a great vacation, that was so exhaustingly worth every minute. all in all, it was such a great experience.