New Orleans : Day 2

Monday, today we got up and ate breakfast around seven.

We ate and then listened to some pastors talk about stuff. I would have been paying attention but I was so tired from everything we did from the day before.

The part that I did pay attention to was boring and I didn't like it. I guess when you listen to a lot of good speakers and read a lot of good writers everyone else seems second rate.

They used war terminology at times which I don't like because I don't think God, war, or violence should be used together all that much. I also felt weird because I didn't close my eyes when we prayed which I blame Boyd for but it was weird when I did close my eyes because I would doze off to sleep.

In the early afternoon they shipped us off two blocks down the road to the "hood." What we did after that was all the same. We separated into teams and cleaned up abandoned lots. I picked up lots of glass, trash, and weeds. Our team leader was a guy I call bluetooth earpiece guy.

I later found out that his name is Bill, he is from Nebraska, and he doesn't like my Texas Longhorns hat. Bill wears his bluetooth earpiece all the time and it bugs me. He gave a sermon with it in, he prayed with it in, he talks to you with it in. I want to tell him to take it out because I can't take him seriously when he wears it but I refrain from that and just pick up my trash.

After we returned from the "hood" we took a quick break then hopped back on the vans to some local neighborhood where we played games with little kids.

After that, we went back to the church where I climbed a tree to get a kickball to play four square with some of the team members.

Then, I took a shower and laid on my air mattress getting some rest before the even more planned activities. I went back where we heard more sermons, sang more songs, and prayed more prayers. If I were to use a spiritual cup analogy I would say they sucked it all out of me because I was tired, physically and mentally, from all the church we were doing.

We were scheduled to mop and sweep the church when the service was over so we did that then watched a bunch of guys play basketball. I went to bed tired and got ready for the next day.