Phillipi

            
             Everything around me all of a sudden changed from the 21st century to the 80's. The newly paved and painted roads turned into old gravel streets. The new seven story buildings turned into old cobble stone houses. The brand new sports car turned into an old Chevy. Then it hit me, we were in good old Philippi. I was in Philippi West Virginia with my youth group. The youth group goes to Philippi every year, but this year was different; I was going. Some of the events that happened on the work trip were; we learned about the worksites, we worked on and repaired the worksites, and we unfortunately had to take a few trips to the emergency room.
             On the night we arrived at Philippi we were given a little while to unpack and inflate our air mattresses. I ended up sharing a room with Dave, Bill, and Matt. When we were finished we went to the large meeting room. When everyone was there our youth leader welcomed us and then told us about the worksites. I was on site A, which was a house on a hill and was occupied by a mom, dad, four girls, one boy, one baby, and two dogs. As far as the house and yard they were in bad shape. There were four piles of shingles that needed to be thrown away, one of which was on the roof. There was a hole in their front yard which was about 15"X4" and about three to four feet deep. The roof above their porch was rotting, and their other roof to the actual house was not even shingled. They also had draining problems on the roof. Another problem was that all types of insects, ranging from bees, wasps, hornets, ants, spiders, flies, and roaches, infested the property. Now on the inside of the house three windows were broken and their kitchen floor was sinking. The other site needed a new attachment built on their trailer. They needed new steps in the front of their house and a ramp at the back of the attachment. After Dave was done telling us about the sites we watched the Princess Bride, then we went to bed around midnight to one.