The Heart of this City

Hello there world (well those that care to hear us Spring Breakers ramble haha), it's Dorian and I'm here to bless you all with some of the experiences and insight that we have all been embracing since arriving to such an incredible place, New Orleans aka N'awlins!!!! Wednesday was a day of random yet exciting fun. We started our day out with breakfast at the church, and headed over to Ms. Renee's to finish up our final day siding and painting her house. We made an immense amount of progress and were able to put up much of the new siding and detail a lot of the borders of the house and the corners of the windows. As we had just finished closing up shop, Ms. Renee returned home and we were able to speak with her about her life; her home, her family and her supposedly crazy dog who was calm whenever we were outside working. It was incredibly rewarding to see the smile on her face after seeing the work that we had done. Sharing such a moment, in turn, brought never-ending smiles to our faces for the rest of the day. It's a beautiful thing when you are able to give back and do service for others. After that we headed back to the church to have dinner (Taaaaaaaccccooooooossss!!!! Mmmmm!!!!) and, lo and behold, our friends from Masjid Rahim brought us 50 pounds of spicy, delicious crawfish!!! It was scary for me at first, considering I don't particularly care to suck the juice from a sea creature's head let alone pull it apart and eat it. But, I did eventually try the latter :) so all is well over this way. After stuffing our faces we had our reflection, in which, we used images from New Orleans to share our sentiments about our experiences and the City of New Orleans so far. It was a meaningful reflection to me. Following reflection some of us headed down to the French Quarter and tried out Popeye's, which was amazing!!!! It turned out to be all that we had imagined plus more, don't be surprised if all of us come back 10 pounds heavier. You can blame it on this tasty cuisine!!! :)