Hello!

My name is Saori Moriizumi and I am a first year. I am a international student from Japan. So, sorry if my grammer and spelling is bad!! I can’t help it! Please ignore any mistakes.

We all stayed at Knox on the 2nd and left the next morning at 4:00. We arrived at new Orleans around 10:00pm and stayed at a church for that night. It is not snowing but still it is pretty cold.

Today we moved to the place where we are going to sleep for the rest of the trip. We get to sleep in bunks with 30 people in one room and share two showers! YEAH! The facilities are really nice! I was ready to sleep on the ground with bugs and only take a shower once a week. But I was able to take my first shower today and there is even a laundry room! I love it here! The people here are really nice! Even the half-see-through curtains on the toilets! I love it! I got to talk someone in the shower too! I have never done that before…!! It’s like those American high school movies! But I don’t know who I was talking to…I wonder who that was….
I got really nervous a couple of days before the trip. I was so nervous all of the sudden and kept imagining all the bad things that might happen (like mold growing on my eye lashes) but now I’m here, I can’t wait to start working tomorrow! I have never volunteered for such a long period of time. I’m so excited!