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Name: Andie
Interests: "The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too."
- Saint Teresa of Avila
Expertise: "I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone." - St. Francis of Assisi
Occupation: Student
Industry: Education
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Member Since:
6/15/2006
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| I'm moving my "family awareness" blogging elsewhere:
http://theophanyallover.blogspot.com/
Blogger is nice to look at, has more options, and lets anyone (not just registered users) leave comments. Since no one in my family has a Xanga, I think that's pretty cool.
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| In order to go to New Orleans with UD, I had to be enrolled in a class. In order to get a good grade in that class, I had to do a project that demonstrated what I learned about service and how I learned it. I made this little movie/slide show to fulfill that requirement.
I've had a minor obsession with service for a few years now, so this experience was not as new to me as it was to some of my friends. Instead, it was more of a refinement and deepening of my understanding of service, how it functions, and its role in my life. Rather than give a 30 minute speech about my life, I tried to distill it down to a few fundamental points. Those became the text in this movie.
The one really new and significant thing I learned on this trip to New Orleans was that it's often the details of a person or a place that make it special, or valuable, or worthy, or whatever. So, most of my pictures were of really small details in New Orleans, Camp Hope, and Warren Easton.
Enjoy!
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| NOLA, Day 2
I'm limited to 15 minutes at a time on the internet, so please excuse me if my posts are brief and unproofed (and include made up words such as "unproofed").
Camp Hope is a washed out (literally) elementary school at the end of a long road in Violet, St. Bernard Parish. It looks a little bit like a refugee camp and feels like camping with an acoustically unfriendly ceiling. It is, however, clean and safe. I say again: I'm perfectly safe, so no one worry about that. It's just a little rustic.
On that note, a brief description of the place I'll be living for the next two weeks:
This used to be Smith Elementary. When Katrina came 'round, the water reached 9 feet. Afterwards, workers came in and stripped out the floors, ceiling tiles, and walls. The result is a skeleton of a building: basement floors, steel studded and brick walls, and open ceilings. None of the rooms at Camp Hope are actually closed in, so you can hear everything in the halls and neighboring rooms.
The place springs to life around 6 in the morning as work crews get ready to head out. It's pretty dead until around 4, when said crews return. There's a lot of community eating, TV watching, and wandering the building. Gates to the compound are locked at 11 every night - no one in or out without prior arrangement with the guards. "Bed" is a cot in a class room with 10 other people, and "showers" are spickets lined up on the wall in another building with curtains around them, and "food" is debatable -- rustic, but certainly sufficient.
I don't have a way of uploading pictures, which is most unfortunate, as I took 67 just today. Tomorrow will be my first day in the schools, observing and helping if I'm needed. More later.
Exactly 15 minutes.
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| Back to New Orleans Missy and I are leaving Lake Charles in a few minutes to head back to New Orleans. I'll be staying at Camp Hope with a professor, some students, and research folk from UD until the 27th, whereupon I shall return to Maryland. I haven't a clue how available internet will be, but being a techno addict, I will do my best to get to it when I can. In the meantime, I'm trying to decide what to do with myself next year. Dad says, "I would suggest working", which narrows the field by one possible occupation (scratch "bum" from the list). I can also eliminate circus performer and rough neck, so I'm off to a good start. I'm focusing on voluteer work in education, which narrows it some more, but still leaves me with a lot of options and factors to weigh. It is quite likely-- well, at least quite possible... at the very least, it's somewhat plausible that I'll know what I'm doing by the time I get back from NOLA. Aw, who the hell am I kidding? Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm.
Let nothing move you.
Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord,
because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:58 | | |
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