Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

I bet you people are all very curious about my living conditions out here and how I feel about Bay St. Louis. Well I would say we are being spoiled by our living conditions. They are simply glorious. We are living in double wide trailers, basically refer to the pictures to understand…

the most important thing you guys need to know is we are allowed to write on the walls, yes, leave our mark…so I put the famous bunny up there, nice and big, for those of you who do not know the glory of the famous bunny you are simply missing out on a very important part of your lives. There are 9 girls living in our double wide, so far so good. We have a lovely deck and a hammock. We also have bikes that we may use when we would like, wireless internet in our houses, meals provided for us, showers that are publicish but not bad at all, games, a tv room, beach volleyball, basketball court, and computers if you need them. The beach is a mile down the road, a very nice walk I might add. The town is very small, very little to do, but it seems nice, I have not done a ton of exploring quite yet (I have heard there is not a whole lot to explore).

I’m sure many of you are wondering about the devastation of the area. As you may or may not know, Bay St. Louis was hit by the eye of Katrina, so Bay St. Louis went from being a beautiful beach town to completely destroyed. They have done a very nice job building it back up, but everywhere you go you can see destruction and feel it. Trees are not whole, the actual sand area of the beach is very much smaller than it once was, there are still buildings with sunken in roofs, and foundations with a bit of the infrastructure left. It is quite sad and although I can empathize with the people, I will never understand what they saw and how they feel. I am very much looking forward to meeting people and hearing their stories and learning about what has kept them here in Bay St. Louis. Everyone is very friendly and welcoming and it really feels nice to be in the south. I have very high hopes for our project. We start work tomorrow, so I will have a much better idea of what is going on.

How is the weather you ask? Well I went swimming in the ocean yesterday. It is warm here…and it felt awesome to swim in the ocean on December 1^st. Enjoy your snow, and look for more posts…