Last Day Here

Well, it's Saturday the 14th and our last day in New Orleans. We're catching a plane to Dallas this afternoon, and from Dallas to Seattle. We should arrive around 8 this evening.

Yesterday (the notorious Friday the Thirteenth), was a free day with no work to be done. We had breakfast at Cafe Du Monde (which is famous for its beignets) and then broke off into groups for shopping. We got plenty of souvenirs (and the boys got feather boas!) and then met back at Cafe Du Monde and went to see Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix in a small theater. The book was way better in my opinion. We had dinner at Mulates, a restaurant of mainly seafood and alligator. Almost everyone tried the alligator. It was good and tasted like warped chicken. A couple of us (not including me) became CCDs (Certified Cajun Dancers). It's easy once you get the hang of it, but at least one of the dancers has to know what they're doing. You become a CCD by dancing with a certain person (whose name I do not know) at Mulates.

After dinner, we had a final discussion about the trip and then held a dance party in the church's library. That was a lot of fun. You'll hear more from us when we get home, and we'll be doing a presentation at Adult Ed on the 29th.

Many thank to all the chaperones, especially Nancy, our cook. It's been wonderful!

Keep New Orleans in your prayers.

-Written by Bodil Jensen

On Thursday there was hair braiding going on at the summer camp




A poster of handprints from volunteers, staff, and kids at Camp Ubuntu summer camp.


On Thursday evening, we got together with
folks from St Paul's and St. Stephens (Seattle)
for Gumbo and Jambalya.

The Things We Saw and The People We Met

Today was deffantly an interesting day. Ten people went to the Homecoming Center and seven people got to sleep in. They got to help serve food to people in the church were staying in. They didn't have to start work until 1 o'clock our time.
I was with the people who went to the homecoming center. Today was award day. We got to see all the kids faces light up. It was amazing. When we got back, we got to meet some of the people still that were having dinner at the church. They were amazing people. We got to here a lot of great stories. After that we all went to dinner with a church from seattle and we met the church group from St. Pauls. We heard their stories and saw their expiriances. They showed us a slide show and almost everyone in the room was crying. We were all touch by the stories we told and the expiriances they shared.
We are all watching sweet home alabama right now so I will go and let you wait for the rest.
Bless you all and goodnight!!
The Fuzion Youth Group
~~writtin by jennifer maes

July 11th pics

(The two house we helped build)

(every body working hard)

(group photo infront of the houses)

(BBQ photo)

Wed. July 11, 2007

We here are all sorry that there was not a post until late tonight, 10:38 ourtime & 8:38 back home. We stayed night last night watching Space Jam (for those of you who don't know aliens come to earth to capture the looney tunes and they chalenge them to a basketball and they mix with the real world in order to save the looney world). Basically we ended up getting up late and as such didn't have time to update the blog an we didn't make it back until now because the church had a vestry meeting.
we had a very busy day today building new houses. we woke up about 7:45 and ate a scrumptious breakfast of french toast prepard by Nancy Wray. around 9:00 we went to help at a job site working with an organization called Cross Roads that rebuilds houses. we finished up the framing in two houses as another group simoultaniously cleaned a finished house. one thing that was really great to see was that about 75% of the studs had some sort of prayer writen on them form the differant groups had put on when they were working.
at 4:00 we left for a quick stop at home on the way to the pool which we went to directly in order to cool off. we played at the pool for a little bit and then went to a BBQ at our sister parish St. Pauls. (which has the most beautifull stain glass windows I have ever seen). and then to the adult crews house to hang out until the vestry meeting at our host church was over.
we came home and are now watching another movie about extreme sports.
that about wraps up the days events but I have to sign off now because other people want to use the computer. but we will blog again tomarrow.
signed,
Fuzion Youth

Pictures of New Orleans Experiances

Photos (see the post below)

the yellow line is the water line of the flooding

this is tyler after painting his shirt by pressing with paper

this is a picture of a house split in half and collapsed

this is tyler playing soccer with the kids from the homecoming center

this is Mr. Kevin Roacherson and Big Bertha and their do not harm sign.

this is the cockroach found in the girls bathroom that I (Jennifer) got the pleaser of killing.

this is the doll found in a house.

New Orleans Experiances(continues)

OK everybody I have more to say. I wrote this morning but we hadn't really seen much of the real damage. Well, now we have and it is truly heartbreaking. We got a chance to go to the ninth ward. Homes were completely destroyed and some homes weren't even there. We saw a house that had been split in half and collapsed in the middle. Also, some of people in our group had a story to tell when they got back to the car. there was a house that was hard to see. they went up to the door that was actually blown off and they looked inside and saw... debris everywhere! they also saw some pictures on the wall and a doll laying on the ground. I am actually glad that I didn't get to see that house because it would have been to sad (in my opinion). Before we went to the ninth word, we went back to the homecoming center that we went to yesterday. Today was a little bit different though. We met a group from Texas. Also, today we got to take the kids to a soccer field after the morning chores. Of course everyone from Washington was not used to playing soccer in the hot, humid weather. While we were at the fields, some people decided to get their faces painted. Most of them got them painted by the little kids. And I must say they looked beautiful. *by the way-- Logan (human), Mr. Kevin Roacherson, and Big Bertha (aka the cockroaches) say hi.*Also, Tyler has become very good at pool! We have found the sanctuary above us and many of us spend a lot of fun times up there. currently Nancy is making dinner and it smells delicious! I'm going to go help. We will keep you posted and keep adding pictures. Keep us in your prayers as we will do with all of you.
Love from the Fuzion Youth Group.
written by Jennifer Maes