Day 1: Sat. 3-15

Hey guys, Ben here. So today is the first day of my travels to New Orleans, LA. So today, the flight left 2 hours late because of ugly boston weather. Finally, we landed in the big easy and it was 80 degrees. We arrived at the organization base, a small house next to a field. We played football with the kids from the neighborhood. The destruction still present from Katrina is astounding. Many houses still have their markings on them from when the govt went through after the flood. There are also a bunch of FEMA trailers around. So there are also a lot of really cool kids here, from all over, like Toronto, Kansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, California, Texas, and Massachusetts. So we chilled in the common area, we danced to a bunch of music, and we went and played football with kids from the neighborhood. We are near the Bayou-St. John area, and its fun. I learned some new phrases like who dat, where yat, alright alright, leses le bonton roulet (pardon my terrible french spelling). I'll post more tomorrow, see ya!