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snack items? What are THOSE? What are we going to need potassium for? Don’t they have grocery
stores inWest Virginia ? I mean, can’t we just go to the deli and buy a banana?

Other things we are supposed to bring include:

Tool belts or cloth nail pouch

Hammer with claw

Gloves for handling rough lumber, hammers, shovels, etc

25-to-30-foot tape measure

Utility knife

Wire cutter and/or tin snips to cut bailing and chicken wire

Small nail puller or cat’s claw

Carpenter’s pencil

Smallsquare : combo, tri, or carpenter’s

Small (short shank), sharp handsaw

Plumb line (optional)

Um, hello.I am a princess. I don’t have any of these things. Need a scepter? I’m your girl. Nail puller?
Not so much.

And hello, you would think they would give us some lessons on, like, gypsum board or whatever, but
no. Instead, Dr. Gonzales just gave us these release forms that our parents are supposed to sign, saying
that they won’t hold Housing for the Hopeful responsible in the event that we are maimed or killed on the
trip!!!!

Maimed or killed!!!!!

Tina Hakim Baba just raised her hand and wanted to know why the handout says we need to bring a
week’s supply of wet wipes with us. Dr. Gonzales says because on cloudy days our five-gallon solar
shower bags might not warm up enough and so we should be prepared either to take a cold shower or
use wet wipes to clean ourselves.

Um, excuse me, but do wet wipes even work onb.o .? How am I going to make out with my boyfriend if
I SMELL?????

Ireally started panicking when Dr. Gonzales asked us all to turn to page 2 of the handout. That’s
because page 2 said: