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Well were on our second house and it was only worked on an hour and 45 minutes prior to us starting. My team is very ambitious and wants to get the work done in a timely manner. We should finish this house tomorrow I'm hoping tofay is just my rest and relaxation day and were going back into the French Quarter on Friday. Also, our bus driver gave us a tour of the Murphey Oil Spill area and it was just so devastating the destruction. Shrimp boat in the middle of the road about ten different houses uprooted from their plots and houses just completed flattened. It was a sight to see. Well hope y'all keep in touch and keep readin my blogs.... read more


Well we finished our first house today...and we just got it today too. Well, I guess were cheaters it was already half completed so it was easy for us. I also went with four of my team members into the French Quarter and we walked around did a little kareoking, went into voodoo shops ate dinner and we even went by Coyote Ugly...it was cool to actually see Coy ote Ugly live. I sang at The Cat's Meow which was soooooooo much fun. Well I'll post again tomorrow... read more


Today is my first day for my second time at Camp Premier. It's already a lot different. The soup kitchen is no longer around and the second tent a lot of us used to cut through to get to the showers is already knocked down and word around the camp is that it's last day is going to be June 1st. And then all volunteers will be relocated to another camp or possibly sent home which I hope is not the case. I am a team leader this time around and I have my meeting with my team tonight. I went down Munster and the four houses we worked on look good because all of the trash was already picked up. ... read more


Just wanted to wish my most little bro a happy 1st birthday! wish I was there to celebrate it but will see you soon (though you probably wont remember who I am!). Happy birthday mate Love big big big bro Trev P.S. Just to prove your present has been to the Grand Canyon here is a pic of me holding it!!... read more
Happy Birthday


Im going to start this entry by giving the run down on the state of New Orleans so i don't have to mention it again. During the train ride into New Orleans we could see all the places made famous on TV like the still damaged superdome. From stepping in the station we could already see the damage, broken lockers, boarded up windows and signs still hanging off buildings. This is eight months later in practically the richest most powerful country in the world, but we hadn't seen anything yet. This was in the main city downtown area. On the way to the Hostel as we moved further out of town the devastation really started to hit us. The streets were lined with practically the insides of peoples houses in huge piles next to ruined cars ... read more
Jazz in the Park
Hanging on the Stoop!
The Legend


Hello dear friends and family! We do apologize for this lengthy delay in blogging. Ironically, once we got back into the first world- we found ourselves in a total technology vacuum. That, combined with somewhat busier than expected schedules, left us in a blogging lurch, and all of you in a blog-vacuum. That being said, we will now try to bring you up to speed about our adventures for the past 3 weeks - just backwards and out of order. For the record, we're offically back home and it's not May 8th- but we'll try to re-live things for you best we can. Don't worry- we won't send out more than one blog at a time- we know they can be a bit lengthy... When we thought to wrap up our trip with a stop in ... read more
First Site
Goin' Wild
Tasty Crawfish

North America » United States » Louisiana May 3rd 2006

I'm feeling a bit theatrical; things are getting to be of dramatic proportions. Shakespearian you might say. So many things have gone cross-ways, that we're at the point where we just laugh when the next happening crops up. I'll get to the most recent event in due time, but first we must catch you up to where we are. We're still in Hammond, Louisiana. Off and on we've been here nearly three weeks. The van just made the final 15 miles to where we have been staying for the last couple weeks, nineteen days after its scheduled arrival. We are actually quite pleased it has finally made it here. The good news is that the van still drives; we actually drove it for the first time yesterday for close to an hour (in a couple of ... read more
Louisana Swamp
The Cook
The Entree'

North America » United States » Louisiana » New Orleans April 30th 2006

After leaving Monument Valley there were some long travel days, and stops to different towns for short periods of time. We stopped in Santa Fe, which was a beautiful little town, and then on to San Antonio, which was a mamoth drive. There we walked along the water canal at night, and eat at the Hard Rock cafe, and then we visited the famous Alamo. We set off from San Antonio the next morning and made a four hour drive to Houston, and spent the afternoon in the Nasa Johnson space centre. This was a brilliant place with many artifacts including a 3.8 billion year old moon rock that you can touch, some of the original spacecrafts used in the first missions in space, and a tour of the famous control room where all the flight ... read more
Houston, We have a problem
Re-New Orleans
Re-New Orleans

North America » United States » Louisiana » New Orleans April 8th 2006

Hey y'all. None of you even know I'm doing this travel blog 'cause I haven't sent you the link yet. Ah well. Once I leave, I hope this will serve as a point of communication; 'till then, it's just another outlet for my daydreams. In the meantime, I thought I might post the photos from another recent trip I made - to New Orleans. I think it's important to get these out there for the sake of bearing witness, at the very least. What happened in that magical city is a tragedy of incomprehensible proportion and what remains is a morbid juxtaposition of life, color, energy and death, ghosts, and horror. I was there one week and left with a seething sense of anger; my tax dollars go to see 20-year olds to their death in ... read more
Burned-Out House
St. Patty's Cabbage
Rebuilding... Brick by Brick

North America » United States » Louisiana » New Orleans April 7th 2006

Below is a list that Susan and Amybeth started -- oh, about 2 a.m. --during our 17 hour drive home! Please add your own ideas! 21 ECC students and staff...remarkable 35 hours stuck in ECC vans ... almost unbearable 21 pairs of steel toed boots, goggles, hard hats & PPE's ...safe 1 busted tire ... exciting 1 tent of snoring men ... predictable 10 creaky cots, especially Courtney's ... annoying 1 gal from California... part of our family 1 video camera...providing embarrassing moments 2 birthdays...celebrations 1 football from the just-opened Walgreen’s...6 nights of bumps and bruises 1 3-hour trip to Wal Mart via the ferry ...too long 1 night on Bourbon Street sightseeing and dancing...too much fun! 1 pink pair of male bikini panties - revealing 6 nights of quiet hours @ 10pm...but never quiet Many ... read more




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