Today we woke up to pouring rain outside! Everyone was pretty tired from the night before. We went to the French Quarter to go to a concert by Chris Thomas King at St. Louis cathedral in Jackson Square. He played some Christmas songs for about an hour. I went to eat at a Lebanese restaurant called Mona’s Café with a few of the other girls. The rest of the group went to eat at a Mexican restaurant and then came home after I had already fallen asleep because I was exhausted!
We found out this morning that none of the groups would be able to do gutting today because of the rain. I was really upset and I think everyone else was as well. The other group had been gutting the same house for two days and they were looking forward to finishing it today. I was really disappointed because I really wanted to get one more day in to work hard. It was our last day here! So instead we spent the morning taking inventory of the kitchen. On the walls of Camp Hope groups that have come here to volunteer have painted murals on the walls of the hallways, so because we had a lot of free time today, some of us painted a Bucknell mural on the wall. We also got a chance to listen to a lecture from a firefighter who was one of the first responders during Katrina in St. Bernard’s Parish. It continued to rain all day long and it finally just stopped raining. I can’t believe our time here is already over; tomorrow we will be on the plane and heading back to Bucknell.
