Friday morning we woke up and the United Saints needed to separate us again. They sent 5 of us to work on a house and 6 of us to help build a property fence for the Church that the Saints run out of. Digging holes in concrete to build a fence makes it hard to feel like you’re really impacting people’s lives. However, we kept in perspective that everything that we were doing to help maintain and preserve the Saints and the church ensured that future groups could have even more of an impact. In other words, we were doing things that would allow people to be impacted, even if it wasn’t by us.
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The group that went to the house, Mrs. Jannette’s, had a much more impactful feeling. The house was aided after Katrina, and then suffered from two different fires. The group spent the day getting to know Mrs. Jannette’s heartbreaking story and by painting her house.
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I think that the sum of Friday’s experience, and the summary of our New Orleans experience in total can all be explained by Eleanor who said, “New Orleans is still heartbroken. These people still need help. Yet no one is talking about Katrina.” New Orleans is resilient and its people are amazing, but make no mistake, there are unhealed scars on the hearts of them all.
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That night we went to Acme Oyster House for dinner with Rochelle and her family. The fact that we were able to serve a family is awesome, but that we befriended them in the process makes it that much more awesome. After dinner we used Pop’s tickets and we all went to a Pelican’s game. Our seats were ten rows up which isn’t a big deal if you’re an income producing adult that isn’t in college living off of grilled cheese and ramen. AKA, it was a big deal. The trip ended in one more Wal-greens run and a reflection.
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Saturday we drove home. It was sad. Our group was amazing. We really did become one family and the fact that that statement is cliché doesn’t degrade the truth of it. Thank you to everyone who supported us and followed along. This was a life changing experience that could not have happened without you.
MAB Love,
Team NOLA NoFear
**Attached are pictures of Rochelle and her daughter (Her husband was with us as well), our seats at the Smoothie King center, A group photo, and a picture of the sunrise over lake pontchartrain on our voyage home.
Also here is a link to a youtube video of Austin demonstrating our Friday activity: http://youtu.be/Zi-NiXufEWU
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Austin, United Saints - YouTube
via YouTube Capture
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P.S: Didnt proofread :)
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