Photos







Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Alyssa Sedacca Blog 2

The trip has met some of my expectations as well as not met some of them. I knew we would be doing work on a house, but I did not know what exactly that entailed. We were split into two groups, which is something I did not expect. My group has been doing painting for the most part, which has been surprisingly more difficult than I first thought it would be. Wednesday (today) we could not paint because it was raining, so we went to a different house. This house was very different. It had a very interesting backstory, unlike the other house we worked on. This house is owned by an old woman, and it must have been so beautiful before Hurricane Katrina. It has not been repaired much at all since, and that made me so sad because of how much the woman and her family clearly cared about it. It's so heartbreaking that every time she tried to get it repaired, she was conned and her house is still not fixed after so much time. We were gutting the house, which was very difficult and kind of s...
Read more

Donavyn Meyh Blog 2

As we departed from Magazine Street, we left the gentrified areas of NOLA to see the Tree of Life and then headed to the Lower Ninth. The land there looked desolate and abandoned. There was so little life surrounding the area.  I’d say that the city of New Orleans is deceiving. You have the beautiful and green and built up areas of the French Quarter and then you have the lower ninth which looks like it was forgotten about long ago. People come to New Orleans for the culture of the city which is definitely found in the tourist areas but the true culture and history I believe is found in the resilience of the lower ninth and the culture of withstanding harsh conditions and unfair treatment and lack of care. The real culture of New Orleans is found in the lower Ninth and the people who live there because they have such a strong love for the city and its people. I look forward to hopefully talking to residents of this area and get more knowledge of how this city and its people have...
Read more