Past Days

The past couple of days have been insane. On Friday we gutted again and went to talk to the residents again. I paired up with Christa and it was a pretty interesting experience. We talked to this one individuals who was very bitter about New Orleans and wanted to move away as soon as possible. He just told us everything that was going wrong with him and how he has had a bad experience in New Orleans. A couple of individuals later we talked to a teacher who is working on some board and told us she wanted to move out of New Orleans as well of everything that is going on. She just told us about the education in New Orleans and how awful it was and how the private schools are so much better. She was also telling us that there need to be some from of Revolution in order to make changes. We also meet a former UC Berkeley professor of African American studies and some thing else. He gave us a lot of Positive criticism. He told us how there needs to be block organizing instead of trying to organize everyone. The reason for it is because block organizing allows for common interests to be brought up. Also he criticized the name of the meeting we were advertising. The title of the meeting was The Survivals Council and stated that a Survivor can be seen as a particular individual and some individuals may not see themselves as survivors.

After we finished with talking to the locals, we came back to the church and decided to go out and eat as a group. As we ate, we would have our reflexion. I will say that that reflexion was the most intense, most personal, and one of the greatest conversations I have ever been involved in. Our group just opened up and just shared some deep, personal stuff with one another. Some cried. After we were done we went left and walked around. We saw that every store was closed and decided to go back to the church. On the way we found out that one of our members was leaving the following day, which was kind of sad. What bugs me is that my group just keeps dwindling down. On Tuesday, Christa will be leaving so there will only be 4 individuals left in Group 6. Christa is such an awesome person and I will admit that I will miss her as well as everyone else. She just brings this different from of energy to the group. Also, I wish luck to the member that left yesterday.

Yesterday, we attended the Survivals Council meeting. What I ended up doing, along with some others, was playing with these little 3 boys. I had so much fun but they wore me out. I had not idea how I was going to be able to gut for 5 hours. The meeting ended and we went to get lunch at Cajun Seafood. After that we went to gut and it was so hot. I only took about 2 breaks and just worked to do my best to do as much as I could do. By the end of the day I was drenched in sweat. After that we came back to the church were we rushed to gather our dirty clothes and go to the laundry mat to wash them. After that we went back to the church to relax.

As for today, I went to church with a group of people at Loyola and I will say that the Priest just seemed to be detached. There was this one individual that sang and that guy could really sing. After that we came back to relax. Then we went to the French quarter where we visited the French Market. There was so much good stuff there. I bought some stuff for some people back at home. I hope they like the gifts I got them. Anyways, until next time.

Ebelio