Monday, November 14, 2011

Girl in New Orleans: Lower Nine Day 44

*Sammi Smith

I haven't finished packing. But I've done all of that I wanted to do today. It was too sad.

I am happy that I got to do a sort of exit interview/Facebook consultation today with Robin. She's a volunteer, but works mostly in the office. I gave her suggestions, and promised to help with Facebook once I got home if they needed some extra information. It was nice to sit with her and talk. She's one of the few people in the house who doesn't make me feel like an old lady. Three of our volunteers are on a gap year between high school and college.

Tonight, we're going down to the levee one last time. We went last night for Linda's farewell. It was fun. We lit a fire and she sang songs with her guitar. I put in a special request for the zombie song she wrote, and my night was complete after that. Tonight's trip will be much more low key. Half of the volunteers when on a camping trip with Common Ground - another volunteer organization down here - to help plant marsh grass at a swamp two hours away. So there's not much activity in the house tonight.

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