You Work Hard, You Play Hard.

Working hard or hardly working? For our last day of working, my group revisited the McLuckey house. We were back to the tedious tasks of sanding and mudding. Everyone worked hard throughout the humid day. However, when everyone began to slack off a little bit, our supervisor Heidi had everyone form a circle and showed us all a new game. The first game we played was called Saw. It was a lot like the game Ninja that we had played on Tuesday. You would raise your hands in the air and yell saw. Then, the people next to you would swing their hands towards you and yell saw. You would pass this onto another person by point your arms at them and, once again, yelling saw. Sounds easy right? It really wasn't. If your hesitated or made the wrong motion, you were out.

After a couple games of Saw, we headed back to work. We were all refreshed and ready to start back up again. "Studies have shown that if you give your workers breaks throughout the day, their work will be more efficient," Heidi explained to us. This theory tested true on our group because before we went for lunch we had completed all of our sanding for the day. After lunch we worked on mudding all of the flaws that were left on the dry wall. The music that was playing throughout the day definitely helped keep the environment light and fun instead of boring and horribly humid.

At about 2:30, we decided to take a break one last time. We sat around in a circle outside and Heidi showed us a game called Contact. This was more of a word game. One person would think of a noun and tell us the first letter of the word. To figure out what the word was you would ask questions about it. Say you asked if it's an animal. They can say: No, it is not a cat. However, it could still be an animal that starts with a C. If someone else knows what you're thinking of they'll yell Contact! 1, 2, 3 and then you both yell the word you're thinking of. If you say it before the person can say No it's not, then they have to give you the next letter to the word. Everyone got very into the game, and we all had a lot of fun.

Submitted by Alicia