IU Rings in the New Year!

Indiana University sent their 4th crew of volunteers the first full week of January, kicking off the 2014 stream of volunteers for HisHands2Go.  Still celebrating their Christmas break, these students hopped on a commercial bus and drove the 12 hrs it takes to get from Bloomington, IN to New Orleans.  During their week with HisHands2Go, they experienced a record cold streak in the south… not quite what they were hoping for as an escape from the negative temperatures at home!  They were troopers though, working just as hard through the cold as ever.

This team focused their labor on a few different sites:  Mr. Earl Millaud, Ms. Polk, Phillipi Evangelical COGIC with Pastor Juan, Garden on Marais, and a demolition job on Jasmine St.  This list = a tremendous amount of work accomplished by some pretty terrific college students.  Here is brief list of the work these guys and gals accomplished at each site:

Mr. Earl Millaud’s home: 
sanded floors, and did some caulking and trim work

Ms. Polk’s home:  scraped and painted the outside of the house

Phillipi Evangelical COGIC children’s building: put up vinyl siding and some roof work

Garden on Marais:  spread soil and dug the long rows that will soon hold seeds to grow delicious produce.  Spring planting here we come!  (one lady joked that the rows looked like shallow graves for snakes!  Hopeful we don’t have any that large around here

Mr. Mike Durr’s home:  demolition!  dismantled and tore down a shed in the back yard as well as pulled down the ceiling sheetrock inside the home.

Now while the IU team was experiencing a record cold streak, they also were attempting to set a record of their own… and two men succeeded.  Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am referring to the spaghetti and meatball challenge!  A record of 55 was set by a UCF student in 2012.  In 2013 a young midwestern woman upped the bar to 60.  And now, in January of 2014, two strapping young men from Indiana University tied at 70 meatballs!  Congratulations gentlemen… on packing your bellies full of meat!