Ashtabula, Ohio

It’s a build day again! I was excited in the morning to be building, but my excited turned around when we found out what exactly we were doing. First of all, we weren’t even going to be working with an affordable housing organization because our plans with Habitat for Humanity fell through. Apparently they were having zoning problems with the city and could start building, therefore had no work for us. We ended up working at the WIC (Women, Infant, and Children Center). They had us paint the outside of the their office building. I didn’t feel very accomplished at the end of the day, or thought I made much of an impact on someone’s life. After finishing the whole project by 1, we had KFC for lunch and a few of us went to Dairy Queen for dessert. Girl Scout Cookie Blizzards are good! We hung then hung out for a while, ate dinner, had showers again at parishioners homes, and then it was time for laundry. Laundry tonight was miserable. My whole chore group wasn’t even there, so we were only 4 strong doing laundry for 30 people. It took us about an hour to find an open laundomat, which happened to be 13 miles away from where we were staying. We didn’t finish until after 11 pm and didn’t get to go to bed until almost midnight. I a had tomorrow was going to be a long tiring day.