"Working like Trojans"

Day one of our work week is officially over. It was quite the experience. Our homeowner, Alice Johnson, may be one of the sweetest people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. She kept exclaiming that we were sent here to "work like Trojans" and that she was very grateful for that. She also opened up her house to us and offered us her computer, fax machine, and telephone so that we could call anywhere in the continental United States. Great to see people maintaining such a great sense of humour after all that she has been through. We cleaned up the porch of her new house and she was on the brink of tears upon seeing her porch back. We then burnt the entire pile of trash in a large bonfire, which smelt fantastic. Nothing lie burnt plastic and wood to clear your head. We then worked on a shed that would eventually house her water pump. Considering that it was my first shed building experience, I was quite pleased with how our squad of Lasha, Anna, Rachel, and myself did. We have two walls ready to go, and they are actually level. Considering the swarm of gnats that loved to attack our faces while we dealt with such harmless tools as power saws, we maintained our focus and pulled through.
I also may have contracted mild hypothermia after our heater ran out of kerosene last night. That was not as much fun as today's work day, obviously. When a couple of our members escaped the pod in the middle of the night, whimpers of "can you get me an extra blanket?" were heard throughout the tent. We are now quite capable of filling up our tanks now, so hopefully we can avoid sleeping in freezer.
Good. Times.
Ham