Day 6, Back to the Warehouse

All week long people down here in Louisiana have been reiterating the deliciousness of Cajun cuisine. We've heard how it's the best, freshest food in the world, and heard rave reviews of gumbo and jambalaya. We've also heard a lot about crayfish, and tonight we got to try some. This was a big deal for my fellow ASBers (I've had them before), and they loved it, some people had more than one heaping plate of the shell fish; a freshwater hybrid of a shrimp and a lobster. Crayfish taste like a shrimp but aren't as sweet or tender.
Earlier this week , we had the opportunity to try jambalaya, which is a spicy chicken and sausage sauce over rice.
In general, I do not like Southern cooking, dishes like grits, collared greens, and deep fried everything don't particularly appeal to my northern pallet. However, I do like the Cajun flair added on to the Southern style, and if offered a hot Cajun meal, I wouldn't turn it down.
Today, at our work site we packed sandwiches for lunch, but after looking across the road at Church's Chicken all day, we didn't have the heart for prepackaged pbj when it came time to sit down for a lunch break. Church's Chicken is a fast food restaurant specializing in fried chicken, like KFC. I think Church's is a Southern chain, because none of my teammates from outside of the deep South had heard of it. The food was delicious after a hard morning of painting.
We were suppose to go to a new work site to put in the floor of a Habitat house, but the construction man never showed up, so after waiting a long time, we finally were told over the radio to go back to the warehouse we worked at yesterday. We finished painting the main lobby and one of the hallways, then spent the rest of the day cleaning the other walls of the building with sponges to get rid of the cobwebs and dirt that have accumulated after four years of dormancy.
I think my team has been feeling a little let down this week because we have not had the opportunity to do significant work on a house, nor had the opportunity to interact with or directly help people affected by Hurricane Rita. I think at the time we signed up, we were envisioning helping people get their lives back together, like helping remove a tree from the house of an elderly couple. Now that we are down here, it seems like all of that type of work is already finished. At the same time, helping out isn't always glamorous and we try to remind ourselves that all of the work down here is important. Our role in restoring the warehouse so Habitat for Humanity can use it will enable more houses to be built more efficiently in the future.