More Sanding and Singing
posted by Douglass, St. Paul's youth
Today started with Bryan yelling, "Get Up, It's time for work." Everybody crawled out of their beds slowly hoping to get a couple more minutes of sleep before Bryan got very angry. Finally, everybody got out of bed, and started to look for breakfast while wiping the sleep out of their eyes.
We got into the van to go to work while still nibbling on our breakfasts. In the back of the van to help everybody be lively and happy, Si and I sang some of our favorite songs. When we got to work, Max, our group leader, told us what our assignment today was. The group became sullen when we heard that we were sanding again today. If you have never sanded a house in your life, you are lucky because it is a very boring and repetitive. Although this job is very boring, it is also very important.
At lunch, Max told us that some of us were going to be able to mud, which would have been a lot more fun than sanding. Si, Margaret, Bryan, Alex, Chandler, Emma, Suzanne, and I all worked in one room hoping that we were going to be picked for mudding. Suzanne, Margaret, Si, and I were disappointed to find that we were not picked to mud and had to continue sanding. The people who got to mud, Alex, Bryan, Chandler and Emma, liked to make fun of the people who did not get to mud. From what they were telling us, the mudding sounded ten times better than the sanding. After some time, some of the people who were sanding started goofing off by throwing little pieces of the dried mud at each other. At the end of the day, the sanders were tired, while the mudders were smiling and joking with each other.
When we got back to the "mansion," we all had to take turns taking showers with one shower. Tonight, we are going to get some food from Dixie: Chicken and Ribs. Tomorrow, we will get the chance to sleep in for about 15 extra minutes.
Did somebody take a picture of Bryan getting angry? This I must see.