Nawlins!

After a long and exhausting day of traveling and blasting disney songs, River 7 finally made it to New Orleans.  We are staying on church property, fortunately not in the church but on apartments located to the side of them. By the time we arrived it was too late to do any work so we had dinner (made by the church) and headed over to the musicians village where Anderson Coopers 360 News show was shot live.  Throughout the entire duration of his hour news show AmeriCorps NCCC members were displayed in the backround and shown periodically during the show. I was behind the drummer and even got to rock the fist pump on national TV (I can die happy now). The Coopster was a cool guy and very professional, you could tell he was genuine in thanking us for coming to help out and stayed long after the show for pictures and all that jazz.  By the time we got back it was late so we passed out for a few hours awaking around 6am for breakfast and assignments for the day.  Today was the first day we actually did hands on work that was not training! Myself and 4 other members from our team went to a house that was being rebuilt and we worked with fifty in five which is an organization that builds 50 houses in 5 days in memorial of Katrina.  Our job was to build a fence around the perimeter of this lady's property whose house was destroyed.  It was hard work but felt good to finally do something. After lunch it started to downpour and our project was called off for the day (rain + power tools = ack!) So we headed back to the church and had a pretty awesome gumbo bowl for dinner. Finally we were able to have some time off and explore New Orleans. Fortunately Sarah, an experienced New Orleans tourist was able to show us around and we checked out Bourbon street and some pretty cool shops (pics to come). We had a 10pm curfew so didn't stay out long but we were so tired it didn't matter anyways. I'm exhausted after a long day and I'm passing out (and its 10:20pm!) Nite Y'all!