Pre-NOLA Trip Excitement

Tomorrow we will be headed down to New Orleans. I am very excited about this opportunity! While in New Orleans we will be helping with Katrina relief. In November I had the opportunity through Bonner to help with Sandy relief in Northern New Jersey, and it was an incredible experience. The owner of the house was literally in tears when she saw the van pull up full of volunteers from TCNJ who had come for the day to help in anyway they could with reconstructing her house. Everyone worked extremely hard; everywhere you looked you could see people breaking up giant blocks of cement with sledgehammers, carrying trash to the dumpster out front, or raking up the tree branches and garbage that was all over the yard. Through our combined efforts, the yard was completely cleared of all the rubble and debris that had cluttered the yard when we arrived. It was the most rewarding feeling to spend that whole day helping her and her family, and I am looking forward to do that again for another family during our time in New Orleans!