It seems you can tell a lot about a person by the kind of lunch they make!
Making Lunch
Work Assignment
Victor (in yellow), our construction manager for the week has assigned about 3-4 baptist church groups to do work together (about 40-50 ppl-Evergreen is the largest with 10).
Morning Prayer
Habitat is a Christian organization and welcomes anyone of any faith, but stay true to their roots.
Every meal begins with a blessing. They ask if you aren’t Christian, if you could be respectful during the prayer. Everything’s pretty cool that way, but I will say that most of those that are here for the week are from a local church.
NY, IL, WI and of course CA are represented this week
Highway 90
Clearly the bridge is a little broken.
Good Morning From Biloxi
Good morning!
Just to give ya’ll a quick run down of the morning schedule.
- Wake up is at 6am
- Lunch making is 6:30am
- Breakfast is at 7am
As you can probably guess some its a little early for some of us.
We go to our construction site today. Be praying that no one breaks a fingernail!
Day 1 – Asian Tour Group
Now that day one is over I can now definitively say I understand what it is like to take an Asian tour. Our day after arriving here in Gulfport/Biloxi has been one big tour. After grabbing lunch at the Waffle House and supplies at the local Walmart, we began our whirlwind tour of the Biloxi area. We would drive for five minuets stop run out grab some pictures. Then drive again to the next stopping point, stop run out grab pictures and then start the process over again. The amazing part was the stares we kept getting from people when all ten of us Asian guys descended upon them.
Biloxi 1st day
Taken from historic downtown biloxi. What amazes me is that this area sustained winds over 120 mph and floodwaters over 35 feet. That’s taller than the two story buildings here.
Our plane
Our connection to Biloxi. It’s not big, but it’s here 🙂
Editor’s note: We’re well aware that this flood of posts will come to an end quickly once we get working… and yes, we had a three hour layover in Atlanta.
Family Men
Robert, away from home, and sleep deprived. Our biggest decision at this point is whether to eat now or hold off to Dennis and Tommy’s promise of some Waffle House breakfast once we arrive.
Apparently this is one of Robert’s first extended trips from his family. We weren’t even quite through security at Ontario before he started missing them..
Pray for the guys and their families. A lot of them don’t want to admit it, but they’re missing them. Mathias and I are the only single guys, and Mathias brought his dad, so he’s covered…
On the way to our connecting flight, Dennis had forgotten his phone on our first plane, remembered and quickly returned to get it. Calm, cool, collected and quick, he returned with a smile and a phone in his hand. We sat around waiting for our fearless leader, and the computer-types broke out their pda’s and such.
Hello from my palm
Now we can have true real time blogging from our mobile phones. (scary!)
So now both Peter and I (Mathias) can send messages to this blog from our palm treo’s.
The story on the Chinese couple for those few who were wondering is that they just so happen to be going to gulfport as well, and the person escorting them thought that since we happen to be the only other Asian’s in the airport we would be natural candidates to make sure they get on the plane and off safely to gulfport.