Louisiana - Day 6
I’m going back and entering for the days I didn’t get a chance to get online, so this entry might be fuzzy…
I didn’t mention in the previous posts what other work was going on at our worksite. On Monday our team put a new plywood floor into our house. The owner didn’t have the funds to put anything on top of it, and was just intending to leave it as is, but our team leaders made the decision to use our funds to purchase her proper flooring. After speaking with the home owner, vinyl tile was purchased and laid down in the home. This was a good learning experience for a lot of the students, since most of them had never seen this type of flooring installed. I spent a lot of time working on the edges and tougher spots, and showing others how to do the same.
As we were getting ready to leave, guess what happened…one of the minivans wouldn’t start! We were quite taken aback and a little upset that a second van had died, but we had someone call AAA again and shuttled people back to the community center with the help of some of the other volunteers who had dropped in to check on our site. We were supposed to go to another orientation session and pot luck dinner with other volunteers, but John Miyahara said that there was no way we could go, being down two vehicles. In the long run, I think it was nice, since it gave everyone an unexpected chance to relax and have fun. I got to spend some time getting to know other people, Paula and Mira, the other “adults” on the trip, which was really nice.