Albany, Georgia, not Alabama (PIOG) - leave it to a Northerner!

[rkoloms]

This is where my sixteen year old will be spending spring break, building houses with Habitat. We are vacillating between pride, amusement (the child is kind of a princess, though she spent a couple of days with Habitat over the summer, as a part of the leadership training program at camp) and terror (16 hour bus ride is the scariest part for me, Howard is more concerned about there being boys on the trip)

I know that she is in for serious culture-shock (I am sorry that I will miss it). 

Is anyone from this group in that area? Or, has anyone volunteered with that Habitat center?

Thank you!

[fantasticfour]

Never been there.  How long will she be staying?  From what I hear they are too tired at the end of the day to do anything, but I don't know if that's true.

[rkoloms]

Quoting fantasticfour:

Never been there.  How long will she be staying?  From what I hear they are too tired at the end of the day to do anything, but I don't know if that's true.

They will be there for five days, plus the two bus rides

[jamieforbus]

Is thAt near decatur Alabama

[LadyOsgood]

that is north of me a little and I have not heard anything about Habitat up there.

[jamieforbus]

I believe it's north of me too and I have not heard of that either

[bizzeemom2717]

Wow, will be a great learning experience and opportunity as well.

[rkoloms]

Quoting LadyOsgood:

that is north of me a little and I have not heard anything about Habitat up there.

See my edit

[caytismom]

albany isn't that bad.  We down here in GA drink alot of sweet tea n grits, but other than that we r pretty normal folk...lol  (spoken with my infamous southern twang)  

[luvmygrlz]

We had a group down here in Tennessee this past summer.  I work at Domino's pizza and we fed them many many times.  If it is the the same group they were well taken care of.  The group we fed were from many different states and even a few from different countries.  (I think it was an outreach program)  They would fix houses for handicapped or the elderly.  I was a big job because we had 4 tornadoes back on April 27th so they had their work cut out for them.  Nonetheless I'm sure she will be okay, she should be proud.

[rkoloms]

Quoting luvmygrlz:

We had a group down here in Tennessee this past summer.  I work at Domino's pizza and we fed them many many times.  If it is the the same group they were well taken care of.  The group we fed were from many different states and even a few from different countries.  (I think it was an outreach program)  They would fix houses for handicapped or the elderly.  I was a big job because we had 4 tornadoes back on April 27th so they had their work cut out for them.  Nonetheless I'm sure she will be okay, she should be proud.

It will be Habitat for Humanity clubs from Chicago Public high schools