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Friday, March 31, 2006

This week.

Pretty bizarre week so far, people. I'm in Biloxi right now helping with hurricane relief this week, and it's pretty interesting. Thus went my week, sirrah.

We all boarded up on the vans Saturday morning, and headed out for an 8 hour trip down here to the rocking land of Biloxi. I had been worried about how this trip was going to go down because let's face it. Eight hours in a van with 15 or so people can get a little tedious.

So, I decided that it wasn't going to happen that way, and I bought toys. My supplies to create a vastly fun trip included:

1. Glass Chalk. With this we decorated the outside of the van with many fun slogans such as "Hey you! You are an awesome person! (And Cute!)" and we also drew bears, bunnies, and people running all willy nilly.

2. Sticky Balls. These little guys are made of suction cups, so they stuck to everything they hit. Awesome for nailing right next to a drowsy friend's head.

3. Snacks. We all loaded up with fruit rollups, granola, and chips.

4. Bubbles. Yes, people. This was the big one that sent our trip into astronomical fun-time. I bought a huge pack of little bubbles, so we spent literally hours creating a 60's wonderland of flying colored fun. Hopefully somebody else will clean out the inside of that van.

Anyways, that's how the ride went. We all arrived just fine, and then got our first taste of what had really happened down here. It was pretty sobering.

Not that we were drunk. Just for the record, we weren't.

No, really.

Ok, the coastline of Biloxi is almost gone. Almost all of the houses new and old, every single reasturant, the ocean casinos, and anything else unlucky enough to be in the way of a 30-foot tall wall of water.

The big thing here, though, is the church that we are staying in. These people are some kind of amazing. We are literally across the street from the beach, so the water got into the church during the hurricane. The pews are all messed up and the church has been overhauled.

Not overhauled like you would think, though.

Every SINGLE Sunday School room has been changed into sleeping places for missionaries. They have gone in and changed a large downstairs room into showers for the missionaries, and these people have been working for, get this, six months straight without time off as voulnteers coordinating different visiting group's labors. They are excited about the fact that sometime around August they might get a week off. No kidding.

Well. Since I've been here, I've worked on a cleanup crew down by the highway. We got rid of a lot of trash and such that had blown in, set a fence back up, and that kind of thing. Today, though, it was a little wierd. We went to this lady's house where she was diabled from repeated surgery, and her father was bedridden. They had cans. THOUSANDS of cans, people. This lady and her dad love Diet Coke with a passion and had decided to recycle before they were injured. Well, those cans have been sitting there since 2003, and the pile just got bigger and bigger. My friends Roy and Carl were given the task of pulling these soda cans out and recycling them. Well, we got to talking about it, and all we could think about were the tabs on those sodas. You see, there are a couple of different things that you can do with those tabs. One of them is donate them to the Ronald McDonald House, and I hear that they will pay for one minute of chemotherapy for children with cancer. It has to do with the fact that the tabs are higher in metal content and worth more for recycling.

So, we went to work and pulled hundreds and hundreds of tabs off of these guys before we re-bagged them and sorted them. Fifteen bags later we called it a day, mowed the lady's yard, and came back to the church. After dinner and devo, a few of us wandered the town and saw the Katrina memorial site where I got to talk to a couple of locals who were actually in the storm. Later, we think that somebody shot at us froma boat, so we came back to the church.

There, we found our looters.

Yes, we have our very own looters! These lovable morons have returned to the apartment beside the church for three nights in a row scavenging what they can from the place, so we decided that we would just... watch them. It worked like a charm, and freaked them out so badly that they started to shout at us and left.

As they left last night, one of them apparently was annoyed at being run off by Arkansans, being of high Mississippi blood, so he yelled at us "Heeey! Ya'll got you tee vee up thar in Arkansas yet?"

Now, I'm not sure what happened in my brain, but I yelled back "No sir! We're due to get that started up next year though! We're real excited!"

This took the poor fellow aback, so he kind of went "Uhh. uhh" for a moment, and then in a brilliant flash of insight yelled another "tee vee" related insult.

"Y'all got you cable? Huh? Haw haw haw!"

So, I yelled back at him, "Heck yeah I got me some cable! I use it to tie down stuff in mah truck, or to rope some steer up to things. Cable's real useful!"

I really don't know if the guy ever realized that I was messing with him or not, but they retreated before my vivious verbal onslaught. We have a lot of fun standing outside watching them every night when they come back.

Anyways, that's been my trip so far. More updates will come later! Other people need to use this computer, have a great night!

TimChose [ 12:46 PM ]