Day 24

Today I made it to work without getting hit by a car.  We were moving residents today because the place they were staying was falling off the mountain, and Greccio has sold the building.  The first guy we went to move was quite the character.  He wouldn't wake up when we got there and then yelled at us.  He eventually fell back asleep while we were moving.  He then woke up and started yelling at us again because he thought there was a dead body in the back of his apartment.  Thankfully, there wasn't.  When we were moving his huge wardrobe out, it fell over and broke because it was so top-heavy.  We broke one of the doors off, and then we had to go to Home Depot to get some new door hinges.  I put the hinges on, which was a pain, and then we had lunch.  After lunch, we went and unloaded his stuff.  While we were doing that, some other volunteers were moving the other person.  When we got there, all we had to do was load a disgusting rug.  Then we took all her stuff and unloaded it at her new apartment.  Then Doug and I went back to the other guy and took another load of his stuff.  When I got home, Christian had made some cheeseburger soup.  After supper, we had a learning component about cultural differences.

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