So the past couple of days in Dulac have been quite interesting. When we first got here, it seemed like a different world, the sky was a color gray that I had never sceen before. To be honest I wasn’t sure if the sun would ever shine…(today was beautiful though!) Anyway for the past couple of days a group of us have been working in a house in Houma for an old Houma Indian couple. I haven been primarly been stapleing insulation on to all the walls. Not so bad, except for the terrible itchy fiber glass and the staple guns constantly jamming. Today we joined the dry wall crew to help finish the ceilings and walls.

              Something that has really struck me over the past couple of days was how appreciative this couple was to have us helping them. The first day that we met them, they looked at us with the sweetest eyes and asked if their home would be done by christmas. With not even the insulation in the walls, and simply a house full of studs, I knew that the answer was no, but how could you say such an awful thing to people who have been waiting so long? I simply did not have the heart. We smiled at the grateful couple and promised that we would try our best.

              On Sunday we took a drive to Port Fourchon to plant grass on the Bayou, which is literally washing away, one football field every 38 minutes!! That I found insane. In addition, Jamie, the director of the community center who came to speak to us tonight imformed us that if we do not do things like this, Dulac will be underwater in the next 40 years. This is not only a piece of land where people live, their homes are established with their whole families, generations after generations for years and years. This is so sad to me. It also maked me think about my own community, and how I cannot really relate to the people here, because my whole family lives in another country. My family and I would have no problem packing up and moving to anywhere else in the world. At this point I am not sure if thats a good or a bad thing. Of course for these people it is very different.  Well back to the planting, we planted 4,000 plants along the plot of land that is in the process of being rebuilt. This was very exhausting, but we made the most of it and it felt awesome after all 4,000 were placed into the drilled holes and covered in soil.

      Tomorrow is our last day in Dulac and then Friday morning we are off to New Orleans onace again for the rest of our trip.