We're totally not in Kansas anymore...

It's so great to be back in NOLA; been back here for a week and am having total deja-vu! Why you might ask? Because we're doing the same project I did when I came down the first time for disaster relief! We're building a house from the ground up, but this time I get the opportunity to work with Habitat for Humanity, which is awesome. Our project is great, and our site supervisors are amazing.

First, our 3 day road trip consisted of driving through: Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, a quick drive through Memphis, Tennessee, Mississippi, and of course Louisiana, before finally arriving to New Orleans!

The drive wasn't SO bad... but damn, it felt like we were in Kansas forever. Pretty much this is what Kansas looks like... flat, yup.

We got to New Orleans Monday night just in time to wake up nice and early the next day to start work!

N. Tonti is the street in which we are working on.

The week basically consisted of work, PT, and service learning. For some service learning we're watching the documentary "When the Levees Broke", I highly recommend seeing parts of it if you haven't already.

Yesterday most of my group went to the annual Po-Boy Festival (http://www.poboyfest.com/). And then later in the afternoon some of us decided to venture into the French Quarter and Bourbon Street for a bit.

Only a few days of work this week due to Thanksgiving! I SO wish I was going home in order to see the Towson University TIGER Marching Band in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade... but alas, I'll be giving thanks here in good 'ole NOLA with AmeriCorps. And yes, I just totally made a plug for the Macy's Day Parade in my blog about AmeriCorps, haha.