Today was our biggest day, with all 15 people volunteering! We spent the day moving frames with Crazy Paul and by lunch time a lot of us were ready to ask for another task because we felt there were too many "cooks in the kitchen" and it ended up that some of us just felt in the way instead of useful.
When the lunch break hit, a girl named Tanya came out of her house and walked around serving volunteers watermellon. It was very sweet of her, but then she asked us to visit with her in her house!! How amazing! So a bunch of us visited with her and her friends that were visiting from out of town. We got to see the inside of her house, one of the finished Habitat for Humanity houses and it was beautiful, efficient and huge (by NYC standards at least.) Tanya is a street performing musician who actually was written about in a book called "Street Saints" (or something like that.) I will never look at a street performer the same way again after being treated so generously by such a kind one.
Before we had a chance to ask for a new assignment, the rain started and cancelled our afternoon. At first we didn't know what to do with our extra time but then Lindsay and I headed to the voodoo priestess place (which turned out to be closed) and then down to the market (also closed) but explored many shops on the way and ran into Rin-On and Warren. We went back to the hotel to eat our leftovers for dinner and then headed back out with Russell to meet Emily and Brie for the ghost tour.
I thought the ghost tour was fascinating but the guide was very cynical and academic with a very particular dry sense of humor that not everyone enjoys so Emily, Lindsay and Brie bailed before it was over. Russell stayed behind to finish the tour with me. We were supposed to go to some jazz place Lindsay wanted to check out after and meet everyone else there but then it seemed like plans kept changing and then when the tour finally ended and we went over to where Linds, Rin-On & Warren were to hitch a cab with them to the jazz place, they had left without us! I just felt bad cuz the plans kept changing and I had to relay them to the rest of the people since I was the only one that everyone had the contact information but at the same time, I wasn't the one changing the plans. Sigh. I think it was a lot of drunken miscommunication but I came away really pissed and just wanting to go home. But I wasn't going to abandon Russell since he stuck it out with me on the tour so I walked up and down Bourbon with him. We ran saw Vanilla Ice on a balcony! And we also ended up popping in to 2 strip clubs, ugh! I had never been to one before but I owed Russell for sticking with me so I went. Luckily we basically walked in and out so I can now say I've been to one and never have to go back again haha...
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