Our first day

Sooo, the 13hour drive was long but we all entertained ourselves the very best, arrived in New Orleans, for most of us who hadn't been there before its quite a shock. It's very different to everywhere else in America and the scale of the disaster is hard to imagine, there is people still living in trailers! New Orleans is very much feeling the effect of Katrina. There was a lot of beads and trash on the ground as it is parade season, apparently its bad luck to pick the beads up off the ground.  Anyways, we're here to help some people and so we we split into two groups today and worked with two families, one was a single mother and the other was a grandmother. Meeting the homeowners was great as it was nice to see who we were doing the work for and hear their stories. The houses we are working on have already been dry-walled and insulated so we are mudding and sanding. We were working under supervisors Travis and Andy who were lovely. Andy telling jokes and Travis lurking(according to Mary). We are working very close to the volunteer house so its very convenient. There is lovely weather so on our lunch break we sunned ourselves. The work is hard and can be repetitive and boring but we have lots of fun doing it, listening to the Top 40 over and over again and singing Britney Spears (that was Thom). Haley's butt was hilarious by the end of the day with Keatin putting handprints with mud on her jeans. Hilarious! Then there was the water fights when we had to clean up! Well we are all back at the house now so we'll keep you updated on our progress throughout the week!

Keep you posted!