Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Day One

After a long day of traveling we have finally arrived in New Orleans. We have all had dinner, met to talk about what to expect from the trip, and have begun preparing ourselves for sleep. A sense of excitement permeates off of all of us as we grow closer and closer to the beginning of our first activities. The day started early for us at Sea-Tac airport, with everyone arriving by around 6:20 AM (No one was late and had to sing and dance). We got a little backed up moving through security and getting our bags checked out but no serious delays slowed us down. We flew out of Seattle at 8:20, and arrived in Houston at 12:50 local time. We then ate some lunch and moved to get on the plane to New Orleans. As one can expect, Lutherans packed up the entire plane and we all had a great time mingling with one another down to the city. Unlike our arrival in Toronto last year, everything ran extremely smoothly once we got out of the plane from the point that we left the plane to when we grabbed our luggage, and entered the cars that took us to the hotel. After getting situated in our rooms, we ate some dinner, and sampled some of the unique cuisine of this part of the country. People tried out grits, shrimp wraps, and other exciting dishes. Later, we met in Emily and Joanne's room to talk a little about some of the expectations we needed to follow on the trip. Don't worry the expectations involved simple stuff like not going outside in a crime ridden neighborhood, not doing drugs, etc. We also got advised to write down some of the ethical questions and thoughts we come up with in the coming days so we can make the most of our experience and truly wrestle with the question of where we fit in in God's world. Hopefully, some of these questions will make it on here so that anyone at home following this can think about the same things that we are.

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