First day on the job!! ;)

Hey this is Dan writing to you guys outside of the library at Sneedville. Today we were woken up by really loud music. It was not very pleasant but it got the job done. Next, we ate breakfast and quickly went our separate ways to our worksites. At my worksite, we were going to replace a bedroom's floor. We walked into the house and immediately were greeted by a massive dog, a small cat, and what appeared to be a three legged dog. We could tell from the smell that the owner of the house was a heavy smoker. First, we were getting all of the stuff out of the owner's room and went to taking out the carpet and then the floor underneath. However, the biggest problem of the day may have been convincing the owner to get out of bed so we could move the bed to another room. However, it was a very productive day and hopefully we will do a lot more work tomorrow.

Hey this is brian still writing outside the library in sneedsville. I worked with dan so my day was very tough. It did give me hope that the owner of the house had her daughter help us. I thought it was very funny that she probably helped out more then some of the people in our group. She seemed so happy for someone living in a rotting trailer. Which really makes me think. Today at our meeting one of the asp counselors said that the average income in america is about 44,000 dollars, but the average income in hancock county is about 19,000 dollars. The people of hancock county all give me hope.

Hi this is Tom, I just infiltrated the library and am writing to you from the inside.  Today was a really eventful first day of work.  The work that we did was pretty fun actually.  Our job was to install a new flooring in their house.  What we did was we removed a super old carpet from the person's house and then we started nailing in boards that go down before the actual floorboards.  The family has two kids who were super helpful and very friendly.  Also I found out that they are the lawnmower racing champions of the world.  They had the coolest lawnmowers that they put together out of scrap parts that they would find, then they would compete against people who dropped major dollars on their lawnmowers and would smoke them.  After work we went to a series of cool waterfalls.  There were three big ones and a couple small ones, but each one was higher up in the stream than the others, so it was a really hard hike to reach the top.  We tried to find the source of the river but once we got to the top all we found were some wild turkeys and wild turkey poop.  Today was awesome and hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Cheers from ASP,

Dan Wennerstrum, Brian Kral and Tom Wennerstrum