More reflections

I have always wanted to help when I saw Hurricane Katrina on the news,for that matter any natural disaster.
We feel so privileged to have gone on this building mission with piles of great like minded people.
Eric & I both appreciate the efforts that Cam & company went through to help us make this a great successful mission.
We truly enjoyed the friendly hospitable people of New Orleans and plan on attending again in the near future.
I love trying new foods,alligator is awesome and mustard greens were good to,the peach cobbler was out of this world.
We raised we praised. Destroyed & rebuilt floors & painted a beautiful house pistachio green 110 feet long.
Brings it to life a little more realistic when you see an X on a house with the deaths listed on it.
Did lots of plumbing,boarded up house window holes & wood trim work. Its all of the little things that we did that made a huge difference in their lives. We all seemed to mesh very well together as a group.Even awesome bus drivers.
We cleaned back yards and saw geckos & birds. There was a strange sense of feeling in cleaning up the daycare centre and finding shoes from people that had landed there. I could hardly imagine 12 feet of water consuming our house and living in the attic for 1 & 1/2 days.
Its interesting the differences locals had in meeting us some honked,said thanks for caring,knelt down,some said get lost.
We were proud to wave a Canadian flag on site and to have found & talked to other people from organizations that have been there to help for the last 2 years. It is improving.Nice to learn that local church groups were cooking meals for the homeless that lived on cool concrete under the over passes.
Cool to have met the mayor in person and also see the beautiful garden district of very fancy homes.
Lots to do there is a casino,jazz clubs,shopping from $1-$7000.00 or a nice ride on the street car.Very nice from the every day life here.
If your up for an adventure I'd sure recommend trying it out just once, you'll be hooked too.
Its like Ollie said when your doing God's work you don't get tired even at 80 years young.

Deb & Eric Donkers