So work has pretty much been the same...making phone calls and talking to people in really sad situations. One exciting thing though is that when we started work there were about 10,000 people in the queue in the computer who needed to be contacted and helped. When I left the day before Thanksgiving there were only about 600. So it feels like we've made a lot of progress.
For Thanksgiving the office gave us half of Wednesday through Sunday off. On Monday we're going to Galveston as a team to see the destruction first hand, and then another teammate and I have Tuesday off, so I have almost a full week off of work. Yesterday on Thanksgiving morning my team volunteered at "Operation Turkey" which is a group that delivers food and clothing to the local homeless. I mostly organized clothes and carried boxes to cars to be brought out to different people.
Afterwards my friend Ruthie and I went for a drive to get out of the hotel and we found this little park and went for a walk and talked about how we missed our families and being home for Thanksgiving. When we came back the girls in my room made mashed potatoes which was interesting with no peelers and only tiny pots. We ended up making four little pots and peeling all the potatoes with knives. It worked out though and the potatoes were delicious. We had Thanksgiving dinner in our team leader's room. Each room brought a dish. We had stuffing, chicken, mashed potatoes, yams and guacamole. I was more sad than I expected to be not being with family, but it was a cute attempt at Thanksgiving dinner in Texas in a hotel.
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