Work Camp 08 Round 3

CUMC Work Camp 2008 Blog Entry Number 3, Wednesday July 16, 2008

This blog entry is being created by Family Group members in the group led by Dale Himmler.

4th Floor “Team Tetanus”: First of all, Team Tetanus comes from the fact that a big part of our work this week was carrying boards that usually had nails in them. But don’t worry parents- we took all necessary precautions and reminded everyone about tetanus on a minute-to-minute basis and even learned the first symptoms (lock jaw). :-) Team Tetanus’ job for most of the day was carrying boards to the freight elevator (from 1920, inspected in 2002) and then unloading it and taking it to a dumpster by forklift. The End.
3rd Floor: Our objective for this week was to basically drywall the areas that are unfinished and to finish putting the ceiling up. In order to do this we had to clean the areas we are working on. We tore down a wall that was old and damaged from water, and we are going to put new frames up for the drywall. The ceiling had a rough start at first. The power saws were shutting down on us, making our work harder and slower to complete. For the people on the 3rd floor, we have the capability to complete this project. It will take teamwork for us to accomplish our objectives.
2nd Floor Roof: Well our day started off quite difficult because on arrival at the Shalom Zone we began tearing up a large part of the roof so we could replace it with plywood. We had to go through rain in the early morning and a slight breeze but we figured out our priorities. By lunch time, we had torn up a most of the roof to the edge of the roof and were beginning to put down plywood. However, we had to leave a large dump of garbage outside because we ran out of space in the dumpster, and this leaves us with a large amount of work to start with tomorrow. By the end of the day, we had placed layers of plywood, foam and rubber over top of the roof and are beginning to tear up the rest of the roof.
2nd Floor Electrical: We started the day off with the wires we had run through a section of the pipe the previous day. We hung the rods in the ceiling then spent awhile fishing the wire through the entire rod all the way down to the switch boxes. This took a long amount of time and everybody did multiple jobs to pull this off. The wire got stuck in the rod multiple times so we had to pull it back out and pull again. One person on the switch box side pulled the wire, while a person on the other end pushed the wire. We plan tomorrow to connect everything to the fusebox.
Basement Smashers: Just like yesterday, the basement has become a place where angered teens can “let off steam” by destroying things with human force (provided by hammers, sledge hammers, and swinging things against steal beams). We did this ALL day. Once old items are broken, we have to separate the metals into different piles (which is difficult when none of us are metal experts). The Shalom Center will be recycling these metals and earning money from it. Although it appears our big pile of junk will never diminish, we are not losing hope in what we are doing – especially since the basement is much cooler (in heat) than any of the other sections!
Anchor Bar: We all went to the Anchor Bar tonight for a dinner of wings and sweet pizza. The restaurant was cool and decorated nicely. The wings ranged in flavor from mild to SUICIDE! They were really good.
…And now we are about to start evening worship!

Good Night,
Group D
Jackie LaRosa 5. Danny Churchill
Sam Humbert 6. Kelsey Novak
Sam Nicholson 7. Allison Muck
Kevin Boyer 8. Mark Ripper
Kim Barszcz 9. Dale Himmler