Our first two days of work were great, and also quite different. The first day we were at a new home site on the Lakefront section of New Orleans. Our group was sent to help with sanding,spackling, and mudding. Luckily, I was assigned to mudding, which I had a lot of experience doing when I was in New Orleans my freshmen year. It was quite fun, and we were even lucky enough to have a sit down conversation with our homeowner, who had an amazing Katrina survival story to share. He was a very kind man, who looked quite young but was actually in his 70s! He was very appreciative of our efforts, and everyone seemed to have a blast working and listening to his story.
Today, we were supposed to be at a food bank all day, but due to scheduling issues, were sent to work at the Mission of New Orleans first. I was very excited for this, as my Bonner site at home is the Rescue Mission of Trenton. It was very cool to see another Mission, and also a Mission for a major city. They were very nice to us, and split us all up doing various tasks around the complex. After the Mission, we were sent to the food bank, which was an even better time. We were all assigned to the conveyor belt, and collectively sorted over 8,900 pounds of food, which was enough to serve over 7.400 families in the greater New Orleans area. After hearing our results, we were all very excited to hear the news, and amazed that only 4 hours of work could produce such numbers.
All in all, it was an amazing start to the week, and I'm very motivated and curious to see what's in store for the rest of the week!
-Tommy Mladenetz
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