4 February 2008
Community Service with Habitat for Humanity by Cody Van Otterloo
Posted by Up With People under: Denver-Colorado .
Hey Howdy Hey,
So its been about 3 weeks now, and our cast has done some pretty amazing things. Weather it was helping out at Food Bank of the Rockies, or Habitat for Humanity, or with many different homeless shelters we have done two amazing Community Service projects already. I guess i can only speak for the the Habitat house that many of Cast A helped out with. I know it was something that will stay with me forever.
It was a week ago, and it was a really, really early morning, or at least it just felt more early than most cause we were outside and it was cold. It was about 9 o’clock when we had finished our safety debriefing and we had finally began to work. By that point if you were working outside, you couldn’t feel your fingers or toes, but the cool thing that Habitat does is outside of each unit that they are building, they give a brief bio. of the family that is going to moving into the house. Beth Clay and i were taking our water break, and we both just started to read about one of the families. We had been complaining about it being cold and I know i had been thinking, “wow i really should have picked the inside job”, but after I read the bio of this family a new drive had been put inside me and I was warmer then I could think of.
Its the things like this that has made the staging experience the best. But we hit the road here soon and its going to be just as much fun!
~Cody Van Otterloo USA
2 Comments so far...
Teng Yue Says:
23 February 2008 at 11:54 am.
Cody,it is so nice to be roommate with you.You have charisma on stage.