HOLY NOLA BATMAN! or how did I get here?

Hi Guys! It's Elizabeth and I am a Young Adult Volunteer heading to...you guessed it! New Orleans! SO, a bit about me, I love good food, blues and jazz, and am a Sci-Fi geek. I hate snow, I mean REALLY hate snow, hence, in part, New Orleans.

A little background, I have been arguing with God about this program for about the past 5 years, obviously I lost that argument. Honestly, I have been asking God what exactly I am supposed to do when I grow up (FYI, I'm 28) and how exactly I am supposed to do this. After my first interview with Kathy I knew I was going to New Orleans, so that is both the long and the short story of how I got here. I did apply to other international sites and did consider domestic sites, but none of them were what I like to call 'prom dress'.

You see, when my parents took me shopping for my prom dress I saw the dress I wanted, it was the first dress I tried on and I knew it was the one for prom. My parents made me try on other dresses and guess what? It was that first dress. When I was getting ready to graduate high school and considering what colleges to apply to, I went to visit U of O, I knew right then, didn't bother apply to any other school and loved every second of it. Prom Dress, but I got lucky with the YAV program. See if you are interested in an international site you have to go to discernment, I almost didn't go, because Prom Dress, right? But I wanted to make sure, because I did argue with God about this program for 5 years, so I went to the discernment event. Where I met amazing and awesome people, like TJ and Tricia and David who are all going to Northern Ireland and Lacy who is going to Denver, so you should keep up with them too, I know they would appreciate the thoughts, prayers and comments, they will be doing hard work. As for what I'm doing? Well, outreach education, explaining why wetlands and the conservation and reclamation of the wetlands are important, legislative tracking and working with the wonderful Bayou Blue project (I'll post links, I promise), so I'm not really sure that I will be doing hard work, more like getting paid to have fun. I'm sure there will be days that I am frustrated and I know that is when I will need prayers and support the most, but for now I am focusing on fundraising, packing up my life, and figuring out what I need in NOLA. For now, my focus is laundry so Pax my friends.