New Orleans : Day 6

This was the last day of working in New Orleans. It would be a shorter work day and then the day would end with what they called, "The Closing Ceremonies" which made me automatically think of the Olympics.

I imagined all of the teams walking down the street holding the flag their group is affiliated with and then we would all circle up with the Olympic song playing. I couldn't really imagine it past that because I wouldn't know what else we would do.

Maybe pass on some sort of torch to something?

So this day I helped clean the church where our group had eaten breakfast and listened to people speak because they were having some sort of inspection next Tuesday. I helped change light bulbs and that was about it. It took us awhile to find a ladder, because in New Orleans all the ceilings are super high and so are the light bulbs. Then we had to replace all the light bulbs in the exit signs because they were all burned out.

We didn't have any new light bulbs for the exit signs so Bill had to go get some but when he came back he didn't come back with enough so we just put one bulb in all the exit signs instead of the two it required. This was weird for me because I would think you would do a good job instead of just going half way with it.

The closing ceremonies consisted of us filling out some forms and having some people talk and that was it. No fireworks or torch passing like I had imagined.

After the ceremonies we hopped in our vans, ate some food, and drove down to the Lower Ninth Ward which is where the levees broke and everything started flooding. It was pretty desolate, all the houses pretty much got demolished because they had a lot of damage I guess.

There were some newer houses though, supposedly the new ones where the ones donated by Brad and Angelina and they looked cool but they didn't look like true New Orleans style housing. They all had solar panels for roofs and funky architecture.

We also stopped by a memorial showing how high the water got everywhere

After that, we ate Domino's Pizza, the new and improved formula, and it was a lot better in my opinion.

Later on, we went back to the French Quarter which is where Bourbon Street is and we saw how the night life differed from the afternoon life was like there.

There was loud music, lots of people, lots of beads, and that was about it. I think we saw a drunk guy so our group walked a little faster and faster to get away from him. It is kind of weird how fast all the guys in the group went into super protective mode. It was like a flip of a light switch. All of a sudden we form a perimeter around the girls and get ready for whatever.

I spent the rest of the night just chatting it up with people on my team which I enjoyed.

That was my Friday, my last day in New Orleans, we were set to leave the next morning at seven which will be continued in the next post.