On Monday we headed out at 7:45 and gathered at the St. Bernard Project home-base for a brief orientation before driving over to our work site. We were given the ever-famous New Orleans Mardi Gras beads with a “Women’s Week” medallion attached and took our seats on the wooden benches. They talked to us about … Continue reading
Today we took a trip to the library so I could go through some archives at the New Orleans Public Library and while we’re here, soaking in the internet access, I figured I’d upload my post about our first day in New Orleans! Today (Sunday) I touched down in New Orleans, Louisiana. After the four … Continue reading
Flying out of Boston to New Orleans this morning from Women’s Rebuild Week with the St. Bernard Project! So excited to see these lovely ladies later today and start rebuilding tomorrow. On the agenda? Do some good-old-fashioned manual labor. Research the history of tourism in New Orleans in the public libraries Special Collections. Celebrate my … Continue reading
I don’t know if anyone told you by way of throwing beads at your head, but today was Mardi Gras! About a year ago at this time I was getting ready for my Mission Trip to New Orleans where we helped to rebuild a house with the St. Bernard Project. While we were in the … Continue reading
It’s been a caffeine and M and Ms kind of day. I had over four hours of reading to do in my book about Tourism in New Orleans today–lots of sitting on my butt, but a nice mental break from school. Book review to come. Continue reading
This year, the city of Boston is already experiencing 10 times the number of flu cases than last year’s flu season. With 70 cases last year we’ve spiked up to 700 and already 18 people in the state have died from flu-related causes (mostly the elderly and young children with complications). After dealing with a … Continue reading
The responses to Hurricane Katrina have been varied to say the least. Varied in the sense that certain groups gave a lot after the disaster, while others gave very little (and slowly). Also varied in what those people gave back. When my Mission Team went to New Orleans this past March we … Continue reading
One of the most interesting things I discovered about New Orleans during my visit, was that there is this wonderful paradox of the city.It is both the most lively, colorful, exuberant place and simultaneously it is surrounded by death and loss, whether in the many graveyards around the city, or in its, often dark, history. … Continue reading
When I got my first retainer in middle school the first thing my friends at school asked me to say was “Mississippi,” needless-to-say this resulted in me spitting all over the place in one of those classic, scarring childhood memories. Luckily, I’ve since gotten over the incident and the Mississippi River has become a place … Continue reading
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