So we have about 2 weeks left in this lil' ole town of NOLA. It rained REALLY hard last night; complete with thunderous thunder and striking lightning. We got yet another batch of volunteers- YAY teenagers! Not really, this should be interesting...
Tomorrow we start a new project, and I am supposed to be leading it. We are going to this place where people with mental illnesses live, and we are painting 4 housing units. I just hope we can do this in a timely order, but something tells me it might take a while.
We are volunteering at the Jazz Festival this weekend, hopefully I can sneak away from my shift to catch Simon and Garfunkel, I love them!! I hope we get free food and swag; one good thing about being a volunteer is that people like to give you treats along with lots of praise, its lovely. I found out I gained 5 pounds, some people guess its in muscle, but my guess is jambalaya and desserts.. Oh well.. This past weekend we volunteered at the Iron Man race, I gave the athletes their packets and swim caps. It was nice, they gave us sandwiches and drinks! (see, that 5 pounds just snuck up on me!)
We are just watching movies after work, but I think the anticipation of leaving soon is looming in the air, so I have a feeling I will spend as much time as possible outside and spending as much money as sanely possible, which is about as much as a non AmeriCorps person would spend on a lunch.. but anyway... Yes, yesterday some of the girls and I just laid in Audubon Park for a few hours, it was lovely. I cant complain about too much, except we have to wake up at 5:30am 2 times a week to do stupid physical training.. ARGGHHHHHH you do NOT want to mess with me this early in the morning as I have learned from my team mates. RIDICULOUS!!! I will NEVER let anyone forget how much I hate working out that early, I must prove my point!!!
Ok, I will try to write soon!
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