Brianna

May 22,2014 10:52 pm 

Day one of service :

      The first thing that I hear at 5:05 in the morning is my alarm that I had set the night before. When I woke up  and the first thing that I did was grab my calculator and ask myself  "who's phone is this?"   , which is  becoming a popular saying for me . We all got up and headed to breakfast. I went to the Rockaway's with the 16-17 year olds, Casey and Shawn were our chaperones. Little did we know that  we would have a three hour trip on the way there. On the final stretch to get to the site we had to walk an estimated hour and a half . We walked about 45 minutes  until a van and a truck came up to us. At first I didn't know what to think I was actually really confused. I pushed all of my worries aside and I jumped into the van. We drove on the highway and finally got to the site. We arrived at a church, we had a short debriefing then we got strait to work. We did many small construction jobs with in one large construction job. Half of our group went to the last project within the site which was going to a seventy year old woman's house and cleaning the porch. We were all wondering about why this woman had bags and bags  of DVDs, records, and cat carriers , until we realized that these things that we didn't find to be that valuable were this woman's last positions. This really hit me  when I opened a trash bag on her porch and a  photo album was water logged and moldy. When I saw this photo album I felt so sad that all of these woman's physical memories were turned into trash because of Hurricane Sandy. Overall I thought the first day was great it turned out to be a productive bonding day. I love this group and I can't wait to make more great memories with everyone. This was one of my favorite days. :)

-Brianna Glowacki