Update

As I had suspected, we have been pulled from our Habitat project in Biloxi, largely due to the fact that the trailers that would serve as our housing have been flooded. We have been reassigned to the Red Cross disaster relief effort in Louisiana. Come tomorrow morning, we will fly down to Baton Rouge (which, if my rudimentary French serves me correctly, translates to Red Stick) and take over the operation of a Red Cross emergency shelter. Our team will be responsible for the general management of the shelter, including the care and feeding of the temporary residents. The problem is that we don't know exactly where will be sent to. Our shelter might in Baton Rouge, or possibly as far south as Lafayette. We won't know until we land tomorrow, which seems to strike me as a fairly good representation of how disorganized Americorps can be at times. I shall spend the rest of the night packing and attempting to determine how I will cram my backpack (currently stuffed to the gills with clothing, books, this laptop, and Christ knows what else) into the overhead compartment on a 737. Brilliant.