St Mary of the Angels School, where volunteers stayed
March 2007
Common Ground Relief, New Orleans, 9th Ward
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St Mary of the Angels School, where volunteers stayed
Common Ground - view from our window
Common Ground - view of room 12, from my bed, where we stayed, with about 10 or so other people.
Common Ground - our beds
Common Ground - Juan
Common Ground - room 12 windows
Common Ground - there was a lot of stuff in the hall outside our room, and not much light at night, and one night I fell over a suitcase.
Common Ground - light fixture
Common Ground - one of the bathrooms (the old girl's room, but now unisex)
Common Ground - blurry night shots of the dining room, an old gym
Common Ground - everybody washed their own dishes in washtubs in the dining room
Common Ground - the couchateria at night-- a big room full of couches, church pews, and a few computers in one corner, used for meetings, open mic, general hanging out.
Common Ground - someone's things
Common Ground - Juan playing computer games
Common Ground - the medcave
Common Ground - views of one of the stairways...
Common Ground - Lee or Leigh? at the window,
Common Ground - and she took this picture
Common Ground - work crews leaving in the morning to gut houses, work in community gardens
New Orleans - views of the community garden where 30 or so of us prepared flower beds
New Orleans - vegetables growing in back
New Orleans - playing go go music
New Orleans - Perez,
New Orleans - we had to mix sand in with the clayey soil, so the stronger people wheeled loads of sand in and raked it, while people like me sat on the ground and did hand weeding
New Orleans - Juan raking
New Orleans - Juan raking
New Orleans - anole in the greenhouse
New Orleans - Juan and some others put on paint made of the clay, only you can't see it very well in these pictures
New Orleans - there's a clay handprint and stripes on his back
New Orleans - a bee on wonderful smelling blossoms, I think grapefruit?
when I left, I saw these misplaced quotation marks at the airport -
are "you" really "welcome"?
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