Our new Project with Habitat for Humanity

This is a tribute to the great combined team of Eagle 3 and Wolf 3. That is the great Wogle 3

Hey everyone. I am now in Bridgeport, Connecticut. This is the richest state in the USA, Bridgeport is one of the top five poorest cities in the USA. We are working for Habitat for Humanity and am working on a low income house. In this area the low income house goes for a quarter million dollars which is a very cheap house here. All of the sponsors that we have seem like they are going to be really cool and our team is really going to enjoy this project. Oh and we are working Tuesday through Saturdays because they have a huge influx of volunteers that we will be leading on Saturdays. Once a week we work for a Land Trust in the area and clear out Japanese Barberry. Yesterday we went out there to check out what the work is going to be and the Site supervisor took us on a 6 mile hike of the area, it was nice to be out in the woods its been way too long.

This is the beginning of the house that we are starting right now

Our housing situation is an old Habitat house with my team of 12 sleeping in three rooms, sharing one shower, and two toilets. We have a basement with a washer and dryer and that is where my Team Leader is sleeping in a tent. For the dinner situation we have teams of two who share cooking dinner for everyone five days a week. Its been surprisingly easy sharing the bathrooms and showers. For the shower schedule, the people that are the next day cooking take the first showers and the cooks end up being last.

This last Monday 6 of us got free tickets to a local baseball team and we ended up sitting right over the dugout. We became friends with the guy in charge of the events at the game and he invited us to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" on top of the dugout at the top of the 7th inning. The last weekend that we were in New Orleans i helped out at Jazz Fest. A couple of the Denver people and myself worked at a T-Shirt stand to get ISP hours. It was pouring for most of the day and we had to close the stand early. Which meant we could go and watch the big music events. A couple of us went to listen to one song of Billy Joels and then went to O.A.R. and watched most of their concert until they had to close half an hour earlier because of lightning. But i got to go down a make-shift slip and slide. It was just a muddy area cleared out except for beer bottles. But i got a running slide and slid in muddy water with just jeans and shoes. It was a crazy fun time.

The six of us with the Bluefish Mascott

Chris and I at the baseball game

Four of us at the end of Jazz Fest in New Orleans

On Monday we had a 5 hour team meeting starting at 11:00am. We went through a lot of team issues and dealt with things before they became a huge problem. I think our team is a great team and there are just a few small problems with us. But in comparison to a lot of teams that i have talked to, we have really little pointless dis-agreements. I love yall and will talk to you later.