New Orleans
New Orleans - Final Thoughts
We’re back home from our New Orleans trip with the Protestant Student Ministries of Cornell University. We came home tired but feeling great.
If you go to New Orleans looking for
New Orleans part two
It's 11 pm, and I'm so tired. We spent the entire day at the work site. I sometimes forget why I love college students so much. They are so full of life, so passionate, and so
New Orleans part one
Monday, 12 January 2009
I’m in New Orleans with a group of students from Cornell University. We’ve come to work with RHINO (Rebuilding Hope in New Orleans). We don’t begin our work until tomorrow, so today we got a quick tour of the city and wandered around the French Quarter for a few hours.
New Orleans is famous for its jazz funerals, which are strange affairs with sorrowful, pinched music forced out of brass instruments while mourners shuffle down the streets with movements that are something like a dance and something like a death-march. There is a skewed joy to these funerals, as if they are the dark side of a Mardi Gras parade. New Orleans has always mixed death images with
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