City Wide Internet
It’s about 9:40 a.m. and we are very lost trying to get to St. Bernard’s Community Center, but thanks to the city-wide internet we are able to blog from the car! The irony that we are blogging with city-wide Internet and driving past boarded-up houses resonates very deeply with the group and reminds us why we came here. We have been told that much progress has been made, but there is clearly still a lot of work to be done. It is quite amazing as we drive towards the St. Bernard’s Community Center that we are passing seamlessly through neighborhoods with huge new houses and immediately into neighborhoods with houses still falling apart and streets closed off where families no longer live.We are now waiting in the line to take the ferry across the levee and it’s hard to imagine that these streets and houses around us must have been completely under water during Katrina. So far, it has been great getting to know the city, and now, we are all very excited to do the work that we came down to do.(The people in this group includes Evan Raleigh, Matt Higgins, Katie Gomez, Katharine Wesley, Devin Cowens, Amy Bachman, Andrea Davis. The others are helping clean the City Park.)