It's 8:45 right now.
It's hard for people to get up this morning, because we still feel the lack of sleep from yesterday and Saturday. Besides that the heat is also unusual for us, Minnesotans.
After walking around in the French Quarter, we visited a museum about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
The museum showed us all how powerful and devastating nature can be and the impact on everyone in the city. We also watched a documentary about the August 2005 catastrophe and mistakes that have been made to prevent it, some of them hundreds of years ago with the founding of the city. The documentary focused on the failure of the levees, the failure of the superdome roof, and the collapsing of the Highway bridge.
Between the museum, the French Quarter, and the documentary, some of us used every free minute to throw the disc on every possible place, while others played card and board games at our dorm.
The plan for today is Breakfast at Cafe du mont, looking at the effects of Katrina and lunch at the collection of food trucks.
And I'm pretty sure we will find time to throw the disc.
Xaver
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Bonjour! Beignets et café au lait. Un délicieux petit déjeuner. Laissez les bons temps rouler!
I like how you call yourself a Minnesotan!!!!
Discs but no mention of trumpets!!!
Do good work and enjoy another part of the country.
Hi, everybody!
Though I'm posting a reply to the last entry, this is actually to everybody. Having grown up on the Gulf Coast myself (in an oil refinery town called Pasadena TX) I can assure you that the 5am wake-ups make sense. By 7am it's not unusual for the temp to be 90 degrees with high humidity. Just be assured that you can laugh like a hyena in the face of any Minnesotan who dares complain about the wimpy humidity in a MN summer. Like you, I'm disappointed that so much work still needs to be done 8 years after the disaster. I'm really looking forward to your presentation when you return. warmly, Lisa Harrington
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