I am currently laying on an air mattress in New Orleans at this place called "The Yellow House." I'm here in a room with all the guys from the Bethel team while a group of guys from San Antonio, Iowa, Kansas, and Harvard (the school) are in a room to my right and left.
If you want to stereotype a Harvard guy right now I will tell you they snore, and snore loudly.
We entered the southern states yesterday and got to our hotel around 5pm. We immediately went to our rooms where we were welcomed with big beds and a very fancy looking shower. You know it was a cool shower because the first thing we talked about when we got back together for a meeting was the showers.
We then decided to jump in the outdoor pool which the hotel said would be cold but us being the Minnesotans we are we thought that they meant southern cold and not northern cold. So we all jumped in and then got out right away because it was cold, very cold.
For dinner we went to a pizza buffet place.
After that some of us went to Wal-mart. It was an experience, for me at least.
I should have noticed from the parking lot that this was not going to be a nice Wal-mart. Shopping karts were scattered everywhere. On the inside only about five checkout lanes were open so the lines were long and no self checkout lanes were open. The people working there seemed very impersonal, almost like they didn't want to interact at all which was different than what I was used too. I forgot that Minnesota nice is non-existent in Louisiana.
That night we played the game Mafia and we were to loud because the room next to us called the front desk and they had to tell us to get quieter.
And that was yesterday, and today I was a tourist, camera and all. Walked around downtown New Orleans, saw a bunch of "Who Dat?" t-shirts, and walked by a lot fortune tellers. Does anyone know what "Who Dat" actually means? I also saw multiple stores basically selling sex and a male wearing fishnet leggings and a skirt that was way to short.
It's been quite the culture shock so far to say the least. More to come later.
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