Round 1 is over. It seemed like it went by so quickly. At times while we were in Lafayette it seemed like the round would never end, but now I can't believe we are already over 2 months into this. Our last week in Lafayette was a bit of a struggle for our group as a whole. We were only able to work 2 days out of the week because we had to come back to campus on Friday, so we felt as if we didn't have much closure. It had rained pretty heavily earlier in the week and there was mud and puddles everywhere, making it hard to work on the houses. On Thursday we did some pretty productive things though, and felt it was a good last day on site.
Holy Cross church, who was sponsoring the houses, cooked us dinner on Thursday as our last night in town. It was so yummy! We had seafood gumbo, garlic bread, and potato salad. We learned that putting the potato salad in your gumbo is DELICIOUS. Sounds gross, but trust me. We were able to spend a little more time with our site supervisors which was nice, and we were able to say goodbye to Habitat.
Now that we are back on campus we are in a little bit of a whirlwind of meetings in order to get ready to leave for next round. It is strange to see everyone from the Corps after being away from each other for so long. There is lots of small talk and "how was your spike?" as well as an attempt to decompress and take some time for myself. I'm excited for a little break and am hopingI can get a lot of work done on grad school and gre stuff.
Will update before I leave.
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