New Orleans!!!!!!!!!!

We left for New Orleans the day after Induction. It took us 2 days to drive down here, but I was totally okay with that because we stopped in Knoxville for the night! I can't believe that I got that lucky to be in Knoxville and see some of my friends for the night....it was sooo much fun! I love you guys! Sunday we left pretty early so we could get to New Orleans at a pretty reasonable time. We ended up getting in around dinner time and went strait to our "Cottage". This place that they call a Cottage is so not what I picture a cottage to be.....this place is a large house! There's four bedrooms, three bathrooms, living room, dining area, kitchen, another living room area, and washer and dryer.....it's pretty darn nice! It used to be a place for troubled boys to live, so the furniture is really heavy duty. After we got settled into our house we went out to dinner in the French Quarter with one of my teammates brothers who is also doing AmeriCorps, just a different program.

It was a really good, really cheap mexican restaurant......delicious!

The next day was our first day of actual work. We are working with Operation Helping Hands and Catholic Charities remodeling houses. OHH primarily works with homeowners who are disabled or elderly and just don't have the means to do repairs themselves.

For the first week we were there we worked on one home. It's located on Louisa Street in the Upper 9th Ward.....I think? Basically all we did that week was pick up where the short term volunteers before us left off. We floated drywall.....all week long. I even had dreams about mudding and sanding because that's all we were doing. Yeah it was tedious, but i'm glad I got to learn how to do something new! (we actually were at the same house for 2 weeks...mudding and sanding every single inch of the place).

well that's all for now!