Biloxi, MS

Arrived at Hands On the Gulf Coast on Sunday. The atmosphere is pretty laid back. As Sunday's is everyone's day off most volunteers were out at the beach since the weather was amazing or hanging around Home Base checking emails, reading or vegging out.

Home Base is a hangar like building with a loft sleeping area ringing the perimeter of the upper level. Ground level main area is where meals are eaten, people hang out, surf the net. This level houses kitchen, bathrooms, offices and computers. Upper level is sleeping area, mostly bunk bed out in the open, think army barracks There are some private rooms. Upon arrival I was told to take any bed that didn't have stuff on it which were most of them because a large group of volunteers had recently left. I chose one but noticed that a guy who had arrived after me had received one of the private rooms. I asked him about this. Apparently he was told to take a room if it was empty and since he found one that was empty he grabbed it. How nice for him. These rooms are few and far between but there just so happened to have been another vacant room two door down from him which me told me about that was in desperate need of 1. a thorough cleaning and 2. me. So I took it. It's not much to write home about but it's mine and it's private. SCORE!

Oh, nearly froze my ass of last night. Which idiot had the bright idea to have the AC on when the weather was almost below freezing last night.

Here are pictures of Home Base.