Here in New Orleans

Finally we have arrived here in New Orleans, we are at a new location of Camp Hope from the last time the University went, however the people seem nice here and everything is nice an cosy. Most of us are showered and changed into clean clothes after being on the bus since yesterday at 12. Getting settled in was pretty good, we already have our designated spider killers for those black widows and the brown spiders...(for those of us afraid of them). On our way in we saw some houses that were still in very bad condition, as well even one that had "do not demolish" in black spray paint on the side. It was a reality that we have been preparing for in the last few weeks.

Before we came, we talked about what the houses could possibly look like, we are at Camp Hope which is now about 30 minutes from downtown, and we can see some of the devastation already. On the way in, you could look at the houses, and see the symbolic `X` whichs represents the damage to the house. In the upper quadrant, the date of when the house was checked is written. The number on the bottom of the X is how many bodies they found, the number on the left is how many people they rescued, the letters at the top are the state the military group doing the searching was from and the numbers on the right are the date they did the search. Just seeing this is enough to start to understand.

For now, I am going to settle in a little more myself, but there will for sure be more to come about this trip!