Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Giving time... Habitat for Humanity :)


So I decided to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. I have always heard about them, but didnt really know much, So our work does some of the volunteering for them and i got a email about it and decided it would be an awesome experience to help out. :)
Here is a little info about what they do:

Habitat for Humanity International is founded on the conviction that every man, woman and child should have a decent, safe and affordable place to live. Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat and its homeowner families have built or rehabilitated more than 400,000 houses. A nonprofit, nondenominational Christian housing ministry, Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build together in partnership.
So i turn in all my paper work for it, and i am so excited to be able to do this! Our shift was 9am - 3pm, I was wondering what they will have there for us to do, and hoping that i would have the opportunity to learn something new, So there were 5 of us today and we got to do siding for the house. When he told us... i was clueless... ha ha... what is siding?? ha ha... as you can see i don't know very much about building houses... ha ha... but heck ya! something I've never done before, i was excited...
So siding was kinda tough... lol... I never knew how much work it would be... but it was quite a bit! lol So the job i got to do was cutting the siding material... at first i was so confused at was the guy was trying to tell us to do... (construction lingo... flew right over my head) lol... but we caught on and did a pretty good job! :) I enjoyed giving my time and glad to be there helping then at work at my desk! ha ha...
Took a few pics while we were there ( didn't take very many because i wasn't sure if i was gonna get in trouble) ha ha...





Yup, a little battle scar... haha... siding is pretty sharp after cutting it! haha...





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