April+19+First+Day+of+Work

Morgan here again. Crystal, Tysheira, Tanaisha, Ms. Ruskey, Ms. Lopata, Ms. Corcoran, and I are currently at the new Mercy Housing and Human Development Center. This is the building that last year's Katrina team worked on. I was a part of the work last year, and it amazing to see how far they've come. The building is absolutely beautiful. We helped create a spreadsheet and organization chart for Ms Sarah. Now, we're about to do some landscaping and plant new plants that just arrived.

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Hi, my name is Eddie Kruszewski and today was our first day of work. I am enjoying my first time here in Mississippi and I want to write about how my first day of work. We first went to the Hope Coordination Center for orientation. Our coordinator Brian taught us about how their are still 17,000 families still needing help and support from volunteers like ourselves. After that, we were split up into groups and me and my team went to a house to paint. I was harnessed up to the rope and painted the whole side of the house. This was a whole new expierence for me and I really enjoyed it. i know that we were doing something good for a family in need, and that is why it was very rewarding and satisfying ot complete it. After we left, we came back home and we played a game of basketball and then we had dinner. We ran at night and had a lot of fun playing cards. I thought that it was a very good day and I hope that tommorrow can be just as good.

This is Jackie today we went to hope coordination for orientation for a brief introduction there we learned that there are still 17thousand houses that still need to be repaired. then me and the rest of the people in my group went to paint the outside of a house. i had to stand on ladders and conquer my fear of heights. painting the house brought back memories from last year when we had to paint the miles and miles of fence. in my opinion this was better then the fences. overall i had i good first day of work.

Hey it's Marcelllo. Today was a very good day and productive day at the job site. We had to grade off the side of the house and under so water wouldn't sit under the or beside the house. So basically we made the dirt level but put a slight incline so the water will flow towards the street. The reason why we can't let the water sit around the house is because the mosquitoes will grow there and can spreed West Nile Virus. It was very hot and i got a little sunburned but i had a good time and can't wait until tomorrow!!

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