Guest blog today! This is filler until I can complete the post on my own :)
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I feel very privileged to write the blog entry for 6/2, as this was our day off in New Orleans! Although it was out day off, we gathered together at Camp Hope in Arabi at 11 to walk over to the blair school farm. Once there, we met with Nat Turner, a former New York City schoolteacher who moved out to New Orleans after Katrina in order to pursue some of his passions and assist in turning the neighborhood around. Turner was treating us to a social justice tour of the area. He brought us around to various sites in the Lower Ninth ward, including a Levy, to try and explain why some of the devastation was so severe in this area and how things came to be this way. He also showed us some parts of the local wetlands, or rather former wetlands, and explained their crucial role
in absorbing hurricane storm surges.
Later that night I went out with some of the group after dinner, and we ended up back on Frenchman street. Once there we went to a bar/music venue called Maison, where we were dazzled by a local music act called big easy brawlers. This was such an amazing way to see live music, just walking into a bar and seeing something incredible, radically different from the buying of tickets and waiting in line that I'm accustomed to.
Build day tomorrow! Looking forward to meeting the project partners!
Charlie Santos
Rider, SUS '14
I feel very privileged to write the blog entry for 6/2, as this was our day off in New Orleans! Although it was out day off, we gathered together at Camp Hope in Arabi at 11 to walk over to the blair school farm. Once there, we met with Nat Turner, a former New York City schoolteacher who moved out to New Orleans after Katrina in order to pursue some of his passions and assist in turning the neighborhood around. Turner was treating us to a social justice tour of the area. He brought us around to various sites in the Lower Ninth ward, including a Levy, to try and explain why some of the devastation was so severe in this area and how things came to be this way. He also showed us some parts of the local wetlands, or rather former wetlands, and explained their crucial role
in absorbing hurricane storm surges.
Later that night I went out with some of the group after dinner, and we ended up back on Frenchman street. Once there we went to a bar/music venue called Maison, where we were dazzled by a local music act called big easy brawlers. This was such an amazing way to see live music, just walking into a bar and seeing something incredible, radically different from the buying of tickets and waiting in line that I'm accustomed to.
Build day tomorrow! Looking forward to meeting the project partners!
Charlie Santos
Rider, SUS '14
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