Monday, March 13, 2006

My Spring Break in New Orleans



Well for my spring break I decided to do something selfless for a change. I went with a group of fellow college students to vounteer in New Orleans. It was a loooooong 12 hour or so bus ride with several stops along the way. Upon reaching the New Orleans, I mean as soon as we hit the scene we were in for a RUDE awakening...no not the damage for Hurricane Katrina...It was some guy driving be side our bus pleasuring himself to one of the girls he was intensly staring at on our bus! You think he was embarressed to have all those student laughing and pointing and taking pics of it with there cell phones...NO!...this man begin do it even harder!
NO LIE...this is true! The bus driver speed up to pass the guy after hearing all the yelling a screaming at the back of the bus, and the guy was trying to catch up w/ the bus! But finally his exit came up and he was off the freeway and on to terrorize someone else with that. At that point it was getting dark and as we arrived to to met up w/ some of the work coordinators and have orientation it was night time.
The destruction there was just as you see on TV. No work was to be done until the next morning. We slept in a school (St. Mary's Catholic School). This was one of the places that those that survived the hurricane fleed to.
St. Mary's what can I say about that place...Lots of hippies out side the place playing bongos and singing (all voulunteers)...bathrooms where not very clean...food provided (three meals a day) was good to me...maybe I was just hungry...everyone else complained that it was nasty...humm go figure? Showers where cold...most people there smelled bad...like musty...and fishy and whatnot...One girl had like a chia pet growing under her arm...like I said hippies...sad to say not very many black males there to help in the effort...sad...but it was what I expected....Also there wasn't much light avaliable (no electricity) we used flashlights...when we were thirsty we all we had to drink was hot bottled water...and lastly there was a bad case of scabbies going around (didn't find that out till we left...) [don't get me wrong I'm not complaining I'm just tring to explain the conditions]

alright too much to finish now...but it'll continue later...

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