(All New Orleans 2009 posts can be found here)
Today was the most frustrating day. I was moved to a new jobsite so that Anne Marie and I could work together. Well, that didn’t work out since everyone went onto the roof and I only lasted for 5 minutes there before I was so terrified I had to get down. Yep, still afraid of heights. So Anne Marie spent the day 20 feet in the air and I spent the day on the ground and we only saw each other at breaks and lunch. Everyone else was fine on the roof. I hadn’t been that high in a while so I figured I’d give it a try. I froze; my heart rate accelerated. It took a few minutes for my heart rate to come down. (If you are a roofer, continue laughing)
I was given an air nailer and put to work. It was a job I was not good at and had no desire to do – and it was cold today. It must have been below zero. This is not what we expected in New Orleans. We under packed a bit… ok, a lot.
I really missed my crew from the rest of the week (Brad, Jordon, Kitty, Trudy, and Anna).
We ended the day (and the week) with a worship service with all of the AEMMCers plus two friends we met here that now feel like family. Jordon, with whom I worked for the majority of the week, and Dan, who was the one that almost got me expelled for singing “Folsom Prison Blues”.
This was a good week. We never could have gotten to know each other the way we did if we hadn’t been working with and relying on each other and isolated together in the evenings.
So tired… time to play a game of Scrabble with Billy “The River” and then hit the hay. We fly home tomorrow morning.
