Boy, oh Boy! Well, as I cut off the story last time, I better explain immediately about the neighborhood confusion. See, the cranky old neighbor did not realize that there was a group of volunteers staying in the community center, so one evening he decided to try and remove us via the police (actually the county sheriff, Colfax doesn't have a police force). It turns out we were okay by the law to stay there, but then the city got involved because the neighbor really wanted us gone, and some classification this way and that way and different fees to pay, we decided to appease the cranky people and we moved to a cabin in the woods which turned out to be beautiful! It was all made out of wood and very open, and we were situated in the middle of a lush green forest with a small creek flowing right past our house. Once we got settled into our new home the rest of the project went swimmingly..I glazed about a million windows and once in a while was able to join the painting team...The community was super excited about the job that we did, and gave a hearty thanks every time they walked past us. The community continued to bring us dinner and provide entertainment, we had another group come sing for us, we had a few dinners brought to us, and we spent some time watching movies with our sponsor. The best part of this project was going white water rafting. It was an 80 degree day and Otis offered to take us all down the river. Instead of one big raft like i was thinking of we each got individual inflatable kayaks and headed out down the bear river. It was a ton of fun, once i got through my first patch of rapids I felt totally comfortable (mind you we were just ambling along on class 2 river rapids..) but unfortunately at the end of the trip the rapids got a little more intense and i got popped out of my kayak into the 50 degree river water. Fortunately I was so concerned with holding on to the paddle and getting back into the kayak that the temperature didn't phase me. When we did walk back to a cliff to jump in and float down the river, I was much more aware of how cold 50 degree water was. Other than that, we just kept trucking through our project, I already deeply miss the people we worked with, but it is good to be back in Sacramento. Its about 90 degrees here, and I spent yesterday at the pool. Life is not so bad in AmeriCorps...not so bad.