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Yesterday my first day at my job site was really fun. I met many new people and the owner of the house. The workers I'm working with are: Perry, Brad, Craig, and Justin and the owner of the house Jeremy. Jeremy is a nice guy who can't thank us more for helping him out. Its been 7 months since he hasn't been able to live in his house and has been sleeping in a FEMA trailer. My task for the past two days has been hanging sister joists through out the first floor trying to make the joists already there stronger. Another thing I was doing was installing insulation around the perimeter of the house. There has been tons of progress in the past two days and I cant wait to be back at it again tomorrow. I'm hoping tomorrow we will get a lot done and can start getting the floor ready to be poured. I couldn't ask for a better trip and people to work with. Tyler Coughlin

In the past two days I have been working on a house that has been damaged by the flood back in September. The flood was caused by tropical storm Lee. We have been working on the joist also some electrical work. Today we continued the joist work and then started to insulate around the foundation. The man that owns the house was there helping us also his uncle Brad and a employee Justin. Jeremy, the owner of the house, told us the story of what happened and it was devastating. The flood reached a level of thirteen feet in his house including the basement. The work i am doing is a learning experience also a great opportunity to help out the less fortunate. It really makes you feel good about yourself. I am looking forward to the next few days and plan on accomplishing as much as possible. -Dan Bagnell

I had a lot of fun in Sheshequin today with my Mercy Team. On Monday April 2nd we started working and a house in Sheshequin. The owner of the house Jeremy, and his uncle, Brad had been working on rebuilding Jeremy's house for the last 7 months. The water had completely filled up Jeremy's basement and then also rose another 5 feet and destroyed the 1st floor of his house. On Monday we started to hang sister beams along the ceiling of the 1st floor. We also wired a room in the back of the house. Today, Brad showed me Dan, and Tyler how to operate a bulldozer and we did some work with that and finished hanging sister beams in the whole house. I really am having fun and can not wait to keep working.-Dominic Morrell (p.s.) Today was my birthday, and i spent it helping out others, i wouldn't have wanted it any other way!!!!!!!!



Tuesday was a work filled day. We went back to Jim's house to try and finish the drywall and other sanding and spackling jobs. Jim is a really cool man that knows his stuff. He had a lot that needed to be done, but most of it was easy to complete. One of the hardest thing was to sand a ceiling. Almost all the people involved on working on Jim's house, had a hard time doing so. But, after a while most of the students on the job got the hang of it. Sandra and I worked on the bathroom. We put fiberglass insulation in the walls then once that was all done we put drywall on the walls. When lunch came around, we as in all the students working on Jim's house went to the DANDY mini mart to get something to eat. we had our laughs then went right back to work. Sandra and I completed the bathroom and now r moving on th painting the room or helping others working on other rooms. Tomorrow is going to be another work filled day as well. So lets work hard and keep working until all the work is done. < > Justin Andrzejewski

Monday, April 2nd 2012 Our first day of work.We were so excited we hardly got any sleep that night .When we finally got to the job sight we were in shocked at what we saw. The home of  Jim Campbell was a reck. I felt so bad and the pain he mush have felt. Mr.Jim was a very nice man he smiles even when he can't live in his own home,You can only imagine how hard that must be. We started work with some clean up then moved on to sanding the walls and finally spackling.After we finished that finished cleaning up, that took up the whole day. Tuesday April 3rd, We started almost the same way. We sanded and spackled, His home really needed spackling work .Tomorrow, April 4th, we will be priming then hopefully painting .I feel great helping someone in need and someone who definitely deserves it. Stephen Pigford

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