I'm out of the Florida marshes and on the Gulf Coast! We're in Ocean Springs, MS right and it is such a great little town! The beach is less than a mile away and the downtown area is so nice. It reminds me a little of Walla Walla back home. I love it.
We're staying at Camp Victor which is a non profit volunteer housing organization. We are here with another team from the Vicksburg campus and other volunteers from different organizations have been filtering through. We'll be staying for another couple weeks.
The work! We are split, half of us are working with Camp Victor to build and repair homes and the other half of us are working with the organization Hope CDA, also rebuilding. It's good work, but soooo slow! It is so strange to transition from demanding hard physical labor in a field to hammering a couple nails and then waiting an hour for more supplies. I guess it is a nice break, but I kind of really miss sweating my ass off at 7 o clock in the morning. Pulling spartina became such a normal part of the day, it's strange to not wake up every morning and prepare for it.
I think another reason I miss the work so much is because the guys we worked with were so amazing. They made the work enjoyable. Also, the dibbles we used completely toned my arms. Its nice to see muscle!
Team Dynamics are strange right now, a lot of working things out needs to happen. I wont go into detail. I hope things work themselves out.
Kari and I are going shopping. I'll update with some pictures later.
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