the weekend!

this weekend was great. friday i hung out with some friends at tulane university which was nice. i didn't have breakfast duty so i got to sleep in which was WONDERFUL!! I got ready for lunch prep at 10 but there wasn't anyone for the front desk so i sat up there, caught up on some emails, did some research and then took a bike ride to the french quarter. the ride was awesome. about 4 miles up st. claude i reach the outskirts of the quarter. i explored a bit and found a coffee house that i'll definitely be heading back to when i get time off. the part i was riding through was the predominantly gay area so that was pretty cool. i passed one of the offices of the NO/AIDS taskforce and got more familiar with that area since my route will be somewhere close.

i headed back for dinner prep but we had had such a slow day that we were just serving leftovers. a few of played euchre and drank some cokes. after a shower i joined the crew in eating some crawfish...chris from buras is the fish guy around here and hooked us up with several pounds of crawfish and corn:






right are kate and garret- garret did NCCC (AmeriCorps) last year and he's our site director. kate did EarthCorps a while ago and she's the on site volunteer coordinator


a few of us headed out last night to lehrmans- a bar in st. bernard parish (next to new orleans parish where we stay) this place is a serious dive but they love the volunteers in the lower ninth. they actually save our karaoke requests and give them out whenever the gang comes in. kate and kate are pretty great singers, i mostly played pool and then ate some peel shrimp towards the end of the night.

sunday the schedule is a bit different. we have a brunch at 11 and then a barbque at 4. the rest of the pictures below are from the day. i've also added some pictures of my new home- i moved from the house to the doublewide- much nicer and cooler!