Joey’s post – Wonderful

So far for me, this class has been a wonderful experience. It’s extremely stressful when it comes down to the work weekends to make sure that everything is lined up and if anything goes wrong, it’s scramble time to fix it. But that is a good thing as it’s an amazing hands-on learning experience. Even if something goes horribly wrong, there’s always a way to fix it and any setbacks may seem huge to completing the project on time, but everyone has managed anything thrown upon us and we’re still on track. We’re coming up on the second work weekend and there are still some large projects to complete before the reveal. This weekend will have a lot of interior and finish work. I’ve been amazed at the dedication of all the students as well as volunteers and donors. There’s no way this project would have been possible without all the generous donations from everyone. It’s been a really crazy few weeks working, but it’s all slowly coming together. It’s hard to imagine that it will all be completed on such a short time frame. Most of the contractors and industry workers that help with the house even mention how amazing it is to complete this project in such a short time. The question of “when will it be completed?” always comes up in the conversations and is generally followed by a “what?!” But even after being told by just about every contractor that there is no way this will happen in the time frame and the project is just too ambitious, it’s happening! I am really looking forward to the release date to show everyone what we have all been working on for the last few weeks. I’d love to say very specifically what we’ve been working on, but it will have to wait until Sunday for everyone to see the fruits of our labor. 🙂