Friday : Humbled

On Friday I did the same work that I did on Thursday except for a shorter amount of time.

I did not do much. Most of it was cleaning up for the group next week.

For lunch was gumbo. Basically shrimp and sausage and rice with other miscellaneous ingredients.

I played basketball with some people from the team and smaller kids. That was a lot of fun.

When we got back the team cleaned and packed up and loaded the cars. We then got a tour of the lower ninth ward, the area that you can still see the effect of hurricane Katrina.

It was a humbling experience, one that made me feel very blessed to have the house that I do and live in the location I am in.

Around the lower ninth ward you can see houses with X's on them. This was the marking they made after searching the houses after Katrina. In one corner was the date, another was the organization, another was how many bodies or animals they found. It's a symbol that causes a silence amongst a crowd.

It is interesting, the power behind a symbol after you learn the context.

After that we dropped off the guys that gave us the tour, Jolly and Joe, who I had gotten to know throughout the week.

Then we hit the road.

Then we hit traffic.

Eventually we made it to Memphis, Tennessee. Well, actually a little north of Memphis because I made the mistake of booking the hotel without looking at the specific location.

Then we slept.

I'm writing this on Saturday, so now ill write that on another blog.