Here are some pictures from my week in Texas over spring break. I went down with a group from school and we worked with Mennonite Disaster Services and reshingled two house roofs and sided a house. It was perfect weather down there for working and we all got nice and tan!It was some good hard work and lots of fun. I didn't really know anyone else going down so that was cool. There were 9 of us that went down.
After being there for a couple days I could picture myself being a long term volunteer as a crew leader for something like that. So maybe next spring if nothing else comes up, I'll head south for a bit to do some more work.
Our group. 
Ripping off the old remaining shingles.
Our professional shingling job. 
The first house we finished. 
The second house we roofed. We were only able to reshingle half of it while we were there because there were three layers of shingles on it that we had to scrape off and there were four valleys so they slowed down the shingling a bit.
You can't totally see the writing in this picture but we wrote:"Reroofed the Canada way. With help from Kansas, Vermont and Germany."
And then we all signed our names.
One of our crew leaders was from Kansas and another long term volunteer was from Germany but the rest were from Canada. So as excited as I was to be escaping from the "eh's" and long "o's," all of the other volunteers were Canadian.
