The Road So Far

Hello all.  This is Lily Schafer aka Chily.  What up?
So we have been working in Joplin on site for two days. 
The house we are working on belongs to a man named Rick, with children Cassie and Zack.  They live about two blocks from the center of the tornado.  Zack described the noise during the storm as if a train were coming right at him. 
The damage to the house consisted of 19 broken windows (which was all of them), damage to the inside of the house (bathroom especially) and the outside, which included a front porch, a back porch and siding along the bottom of the house.  Compared to some of the other houses we saw... many of them were just slabs of concrete where houses used to stand before the storm.  We can see a giant iron cross from Rick's hosue, which is the last thing standing among what used to be a church and a preists home.  The old hospital can also be seen from his house, four inches away from where it originally stood before the storm.
The work that we have been doing consists of redoing siding, repairing the bathroom, insolating, and hammering... a lot of hammering.  The days have been hot and sunny (I totally got sunburned... no big deal), but filled with hard work and fun.  I am song master (in charge of all singing related activites) so the air has been filled with rousing renditions of "Staying Alive", an awesome version of "Rolling in the Deep" complete with hammering to the beat, "Thriller", "Somebody That I Used To Know" and the classic song of "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction.  Its been a good time.
The nights have been filled with Up and Down the River (which is what spawned Chily, which is a team of myself and Charlie Platt) and haning out with the group.
So far so good, I hope the rest of the time we are here are just as fun as the past couple of days.
Miss you guys back in Minnesota! 
Peace from Lydia!
See you soon!
Go Chily!
      Sincerely,
            Lily Schafer