Today started with another great breakfast with the wonderful cook that's here working with Urban Impact for a while- eggs benedict, which was a challenge for a few to try, but otherwise really good for the rest of us:)
We started work around 9:30am this morning & were hoping for a productive day cleaning up each of our team's assigned blocks within New Orleans. The group of 8 I am working with was able to fill quite a few more 55gallon heavy duty trash bags with random trash found in the grass & sidewalk along with more leaves, which were clogging the street drains. However, with only like an hour or two into our work day it started downpouring accompanied by powerful strikes of lightening and thunder. Our Walmart 88cent ponchos came in handy, but were no match for this Louisiana rain. All of the groups were told to pack up & head back to the yellow house we're staying at. The rest of the work day was called off even though the rain stopped & the sun came out a little later.
Friday afternoon was originally going to be our free day, but on accounts of the rain, today became our free day. Our team spent the afteroon in New Orleans' French Quarter, which is like the downtown tourist shopping place. We went from basically being minorities (since majority of New Orleans' population is black) to being surrounded by other whites shopping and taking pictures in Cafe Du Monde & with background sceneries of a large beautiful church & famous street signs. Many of us bought Marti Gras masks, which is shown below.
We're really praying for non-rainy weather & that tomorrow will be a full work day. This is definitely a big prayer request of ours this week. We'd love to be able to have each group of 8 pick up the trash, mow down the weeds & clear the path of each sidewalk for each of our 4 blocks. Thank you all so much for your prayers & support & God Bless:)
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