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Monday, August 23, 2010

My First Week With Habitat

Great people, building houses, and a donut a day... yes please.

I've finished my first week with Americorps working with Habitat for Humanity Silicon Valley. I'm in Morgan Hill (South San Jose) and it is great.

Shout out to Travis Ukestad and his Family for putting me up for a few days and now I have a pool house room with a family and so far it seems like a great place to be.

We are building 6 houses here and with the help of TONS of volunteers we should be done with them toward the beginning of next summer. Wednesday- Saturday we have close to 20 volunteers each day ranging from high school kids to corporate groups to retired guys who really know what they are doin and are a lot of fun.

Everyday there is something different to do and different people to teach or to be taught by, or to just figure stuff out with. Something I realized early on is that it's not about how much work we can get done, but about making sure volunteers have a good time and that the families have a beautiful house when it's finished.

I could have a good time just stopping work and have a donut no matter what I'm doing, but building houses with great people makes it all the better.

I'm so grateful that God put me here rather than some of the places I had in mind.

Love