Geodude8
Registered: 06/13/07
Posts: 11
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We've been home for about a week now and it's been interesting. We came home to an awesome reception that our parents prepared for us with great food and interesting reflections. As we all headed for home, some of us had to be back bright and early the following morning because of summer school.
I came home to my room, to my bed, to my TV, to my everything. That feeling of being home is a feeling that you cannot describe. Everything that belongs to you is there and if you leave, no matter for how long, you know it'll still be there. I thought about this and then connected it to the fact that many of the people in New Orleans have not felt this same feeling of being home for 22 months.
The other day I was listening to a song from the musical The Wiz called "Home." The first couple of lines are:
"When I think of home
I think of a place where there's love overflowing
I wish I was home
I wish I was back there with the things I been knowing."
It struck me that this is exactly how the residents of 'Nawlens' are feeling
every single day, some for the rest of their lives.
We spent 13 days with a city that has survived so much in the past 22 months. I hope that we were able to accelerate the process of coming home even a little bit. I know there's lots of love overflowing...now we are helping bring back the things that they've been knowing. 
--Geovanny Estrada '08
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tomzeko
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Registered: 06/06/07
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Good one, Geo! Yeah, home does take on a different quality and more intense valuing after two weeks doing what we were doing in NOLA. It is still difficult to talk about it when people ask what we did, saw, felt and thought. Thanks for sharing this. As the spirit moves you, please compose other reflective narratives, including prose and poetry or whatever. Hoping to post lots more pictures with commentary next week now that I am back in LA. Best regards, and thank you for all you did to make the NOLA immersion the quality experience it was for all the Cubs and those we attempted to serve. TZ |
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tomzeko
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Also, Geo make sure you keep voting daily for the Harry Tompson Center to win the Burger King $50,000 competitive grant. With Loyola's help, it has moved from 4th place to first place. Now to keep them there through July until the contest ends. Enroll others, family members, friends, classmates, neighbors, to help. One vote a day is all it takes. TZ |
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