Wrappin' up...

So, it's our last day in New Orleans. It's been a fun run but the entire team is definitely ready to bust a move outta here and head to our next location. We found out last week that we will be heading to Kissemmee, FL! We will be working with a branch of Disney doing environmental conservation work. It sounds like its going to be a lot of hard work but should be pretty rewarding! We havent gotten into all of the nitty gritty details of the project yet because right now we are working out this rounds project debrief (we have to give wrap up presentation to the directors and staff upon our return to perry point)

We finished work on Friday..which was pretty exciting. The past few weeks still consisted of a lot of painting and random carpentry work. A couple of weeks ago the team traveled to Baton Rouge for a night to work on a home. It was nice to get away from the United Saints project...not to mention we got to stay in a really nice hotel...(that bed sure beat the air mattresses we have been sleeping on for the past 8 weeks..) This past week i spent my time in the tool shed and running tools to projects in some pretty sweet cargo vans. We got a lot of work done for United Saints and everyone is pretty sad to see us go. Luckily another team from the Denver campus will be arriving in a few weeks to TRY to fill our shoes...(doubtful) We got pretty close to all of the people here so, its going to be sad saying goodbye.

Over the past two weekends we volunteered a Jazz Fest. Selling $65 tshirts is a pretty boring and ridiculous job but we got to get into the festival for free which was pretty radical since the price for a one day pass is $50...lots of money being made. I got the opportunity to catch a few minutes of Dave Matthew Band, Earth Wind and Fire, Etta James, Neil Young, Avett Brothers...and a few others. Etta James was by far the best...Neil Young is old. Unfortunately i didn't get to see Ben Harper (my all time fav) because i had to play a rousing game of kickball....i don't want to talk about it. We also go a free t-shirt and some kind of cooler bag contraption. Badgers love free tshirts.

Our entire team finished all 80 of our Individual Service Project (ISP) hours...which is pretty huge. We were the first team done and Travis was the first Corps member done. Apparently there is rumors circulating that we get a pizza party. woo. Having all of our hours done is a pretty fortunate thing - we basically get some of our freedom back.. free time on weekends and after work! 

We have a long drive tomorrow and Wednesday. We will be staying in Perry Point for about a week and a half before we leave for FL. I have no interest in going back there but it will be nice to get a break from living in a 3 room house with 9 crazy humans. 

This has been an awesome first round. I got the opportunity to meet a ton of great and interesting people and learned a lot about the history and culture of New Orleans. Our team has learned a lot about each other and while we dont always get along or see eye to eye..we are all that we've got so we had and will still have to learn to live with one another.  I also learned a lot about myself and know that everything i learned here and had to deal with during these 2months will make me stronger....or so i hear.