What in the world am I doing here?

     So I guess most of you reading this probably know what I'm doing in Mexico and why I'm here. However, if you don't, this is for you. First of all, I'm working with Casas Por Cristo, an organization that provides short term mission trips to teams via taking them across the border to Juarez, Mexico to build a house in a couple days for the impoverished people there. I had been on two trips with Casas in the past and really loved most everything I experienced. So while I was in Mexico on my Spring Break trip this summer, my team leader Brittany Girle ( if you don't know her you're really missing out) talked to me about being an intern with Casas this summer. We had this conversation last year too, except that last year I told myself I couldn't do it before I even seriously considered it. This year, however, I was a little more confident in my abilities and Brittany made me believe that I could do it.
     So I got super pumped about being here all summer and applied to be an intern. Well, I was accepted and hired as a Casas Por Cristo summer intern. Then a week later I got a call saying that they actually couldn't have any interns this summer. The registration numbers for teams coming down to build houses was so low that they really couldn't afford to pay people to do the jobs that they already had staff members for. I was pretty devastated. I also still felt like I was supposed to be in Mexico this summer, but I made arrangements to be in Athens and work at the dairy all summer. Well, in an exciting turn of events, one of the other fired interns had a pretty great idea: we could raise the money to build ten houses and we would be our own team of four people and still be down here building houses all summer. Instead of being team leaders, leading other groups' teams, we would just be a team by ourselves. After a couple seconds of thinking this was impossible, I decided to do it. So we started raising the money and got everything worked out and we came down and started building houses. And that's where I'm at now. Also, I live at the Casas Por Cristo Executive Director's house. With four dogs. And a pig. It's cool, he's potty trained.