Houston

Hello!!! So we've officially been in Houston for over a week now.  We live in a church's recreation center basically, we have two of the classrooms we sleep in, have a nice almost industrial size kitchen and there's a gymnasium right next to our rooms.  We live in Bellaire, TX which is a part of the Houston Metropolitan area.  We are so close to downtown there are so many things to do around here.  It's a really nice area we live in, we drive down the streets and there are so many gorgeous houses but then all of a sudden there are old houses in between them they look so out of place.  We are working with an organization called Neighborhood Centers Inc. and we are working with them on their project to replace temporary tarps on roofs that have been damaged since going up from Hurricane Ike.  So we go in and simply nail down tarps over the old ones.  Not so simple.  Originally they saw us doing 90 houses in the 10 working days we had here.  We had a very breif training and the guy who trained us worked for the government so couldn't even walk on the property....So it took us 2 days to complete the first house we did.  So we had to come up with a new game plan which now sees us finishing 2 houses per team (2 teams) a day if we're lucky.  I really like the work, it is just so darn hot and humid here.  I'm getting used to it but today I had to take a sick day because I have a humungous migraine!  I still have it but I'm sure I'll be fine to work tomorrow!

Me showing the men how it's done!

Last weekend we went to check out the museum district, I thought the natural science museum was free, turns out its $15 friggen dollars to get in!!! So instead we walked around Hermann Park which is GORGEOUS and I want to go back for a picninc.  its a fun little area that has paddle boats and a train that goes around and the zoo is right next to the park (which I want to go to before we leave).  Tuesday night some of us went to the Houston Astros game against the LA Dodgers and that was a lot of fun.  So i really like it here so far, its just so humid, so I decided to cut off 5 inches of my hair! Hated to have to do it but it was necessary

This weekend we have a 3 day weekend (thank you Memorial Day).  No set plans, might go to a park for a picnic and there may be some fireworks and music for Memorial Day celebrating!  And we're here in Houston until June 8th and to be quite honest, I don't know if we have an address to send mail to...the day we got here the organization was told they had a week to move out of the building they were in...so I don't know that they are there anymore...but as soon as I know my next address I'll let you know! We don't know exactly where we'll be going, Big Bend is still the plan as of now but we could be sent to a lot of places due to these crazy disasters happening! could be Missouri, could be Alabama, I could be heading back to Arkansas! Who knows!  But as soon as I know I will post it, I will try to get better with the picture thing, I'm just not good at remembering to take dang pictures!!! Hope all is well! <3