From Emily Cain

After a long trip to New Orleans, I feel great that I was able to help the people there but mostly I feel tired. Going to bed at 11pm every night and waking up at 6am every morning really drained me. I felt that this was a great experience and I can't wait to share it with my family and friends back at home. Our bus driver, Vernon, lives in New Orleans and told us that he thinks that it is volunteers who have helped the city rebuild. He said that the government did absolutely nothing to help the people in need. Hearing this made me realize that even though the work made us want to hurt somebody it really made an impact on the people of the city. Everywhere we went people asked us if we were here for a school trip to tour the city, and we told them that we were actually helping to rebuild. All of the people were so grateful that someone cares about them and wanted to help when in need. In my opinion, the US should step in to help those who can't help themselves, and that's exactly what we did.