So, the cool thing about doing a two-day work trip is that you really have time to get a good amount of work done. Peter, the program coordinator at The Source, commented that many volunteers come for 3 hour chunks of time - very appreciated, but sometimes hard to get bigger projects done because of the coordination and setup and take down that are a part of the deal for this kind of work. With the luxury of two days on our hands, our group was really able to take on things like building 15 or so sound traps to help make a studio gathering place less echo-ey, or build a shed to store tools and materials for other groups coming in, or finish entire wiring or painting projects.
The, um, less cool thing about being able to get a lot done is that you WANT to get it all done before you call it a day! This means that we were still going strong at 5:30 tonight, trying to both put the wraps on the shed and the sound traps AND get everything cleaned up and in a decent place for the next group coming through and the visitors that come and go. We left victorious and tired - very ready for showers at the Y (where we could wash off dirt AND the itchy fiberglass that was a key ingredient for the sound traps), and later pizza at Dan and Holly's place.
All this work was nicely sandwiched between a visit to The Basilica of St. Mary in the morning and a candy scavenger hunt back at the church tonight. *yawn*!
Snapshots of moments of the two days can be scanned here: http://twitpic.com/photos/appletruenorth. Much better pictures will be available at some point as well, and they'll do a much better job of capturing the fun and intensity of these experiences. Stay tuned!
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