CAS Reflection #4: Learning Outcome 2 S

Quarantine summer was a very eventful one. I was able to pick up some skills that could help me through the entirety of my life. The most notable being, construction. Before Covid-19, we hired a guy to build the house for us. They were able to construct the shell of the house, but when Covid hit, we paused construction for a couple of weeks. At that time, we were stacking materials that we needed to build the inside of the house. We finally had everything we needed so we began to work. We felt as if we didn't need to spend the extra money on a worker, so we did it ourselves. I personally had never done construction before, but my uncle Joe had so he was showing me how to work everything. We began with the room's layout, which requires us to use the nail gun and nail the wood pieces together, and to the floor and walls. Honestly, it was very challenging at first, the kickback the gun had was a lot more than I had anticipated, but after a while, I was able to get the hang of it. We finished the layouts, in the end being  3 rooms and 1 bathroom. The entirety of our construction lasted us a week. We followed up with the drywall which was way harder than the layouts. Not only was the drywall heavy, but it broke very easily. This whole building a house experience was very difficult but it did teach me things that could later be helpful. My family did have a long life of drywall workers and construction, so maybe I could later continue the tradition.