I AM BACK. I definitely had a good experience in St. Bernard, LA which is a suburb of New Orleans. But I’m also glad that it wasn’t longer than four weeks, because this country boy was most certainly getting tired of living in the city (and also tired of some other things). Except for the first two days, all I did was paint. I enjoyed the painting for the most part, but it did get old. I also enjoyed living with 15 (sometimes 17) other guys, but after a while the not so large dorm seemed even “less large” and the joys of communal living decreased drastically.
Don’t be shocked, but here are a few pics from the south.
The whole group!
Jonathan Hege, Vernon Stoltzfus, and Kendall Beachy who were my faithful painting comrades.
Just so you can see that I actually did some work…
Sometimes the work was pretty stressful. 
This picture is in loving memory of my friend, Jonathan Lynn Hege, (often spoken of as Hege) for whom I spent many hours with and who had a serious “hang-up” (among many other hang-ups) on this very thing.
This swimming pool proved to be quite a blessing to me since the home owner told us that we can use it as much as we like. Many good time were had!
This is a part of the not so large dorm.
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