Report by Stephen:
FIRST DAY: Rise and shine at 6:45!!!! YAY. We all drove in the van (And got to ride a ferry across the Mississippi river!) until we reached Little Greater Zion Baptist Church where we met Miss Warrenetta, the lady who tells us what job sites we should work at. David (Dah-veed), our worship leader headed up a small group made up of him, Pauli, and Dani to go to a house owned by someone called Miss Mabel. I wasn't in that group, but I heard they did a lot of gardening. The rest of us drove over to a place called "The Guerrilla Garden", partially owned by a lady nick-named "Jenga". The garden was a smallish piece of land that had been an empty lot before the storm. We hauled a lot of gravel, moved a lot of bricks, and shoveled a lot of dirt. Josh fell over with a wheelbarrow because he thought he heard Wolf (our speaker) tell him to "Floor it!" when wolf had actually said "Slow down!". I got it on film. Anyways, we did a lot of work at that site. Jenga told us her story about how she had given up a 3d animation job at Dreamworks, just to come live in New Orleans and do volunteer work while living off her life savings. Her dream is to turn the lot into a community garden. After work we came back to base camp and there were huge holes in the ground because of some construction. They had accidentally hit our water main, so we had to deal with brown water in our sinks for a while. We all went to a chicken restaurant called "Chick-fil-A" for dinner. After that, we had chapel, then afterglow, then we went to bed.
SECOND DAY: Today Most of the group went back to the Guerrilla garden and finished another path. Also, they dug a ton of bricks out of the ground. Some of us (David, Lorna, Me, and Dani) drove to a duplex house owned by a lady named Miss Mary, who had had her house completely rebuilt after the storm. It had taken her four years before she could actually move back into Louisiana, and she still has yet to move into her new house. We did a lot of caulking in her bathroom, and then we went back to the church to have our lunch with the rest of the group. After that, we split up again with Wolf, Me, Janna, and Pauli going back to Miss Mary's house and doing more caulking and cleaning there. I got to use a beastly lawn mower, and also a weed whacker. After that, we were picked up by the rest of the group and taken back to base camp, where we had nice hot showers. For dinner, we went to Brothers (Chicken place), Sonic, and Subway. We just had chapel and afterglow, and we just now have named the mac up in Todd's office. It is now officially called "Max". I am tired, and Todd is telling me to go to bed, so goodnight everyone. Over and out!
