We're basically trying to work all angles.

You really feel a connection to the work you're doing because you meet the people you're helping and for the most part they're working alongside you.

There were a bunch of really funny [mascot ideas[, but they would not pass through the Board of Managers or administration.

You're living in tents. You're basically working from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep. It's one of the most rewarding things I've ever done.

On Tuesday, our job was to move furniture out of this one house. There was mold on the carpet, mold on the wall, mold on the ceiling. It was just disgusting.

There were houses on top of houses, cars on trees, and abandoned cars everywhere. It looked like a complete war zone. There is no way certain sections of the Lower 9th Ward can be rebuilt. They just have to start over. The houses that were left weren't even houses, they were just piles of wood.