Tweetin’ from Dulac

Below are some of the most recent Twitterisms from the St. Peter’s Youth Group and their Mission Trip to Dulac, LA.   It’s great following along with this stream-of-consciousness electronic graffiti; it’s been  like reading dispatches from the front.  Which is, really, where they are – working to build housing in that hurricane-ravaged region.

Anyway, it’s been splendid watching this story unfold – a story  now in its “hard physical labor, every day, in sweltering heat, to the point of exhaustion” phase – and they’re doing it all for people they don’t know and will likely never meet.

The kids are all right.   (Wish I could be there with them, in fact – including the kids from Morristown’s Church of the Redeemer, who are in Dulac, too, alongside kids from Kirby and Smithville and Des Moines.)

You can follow along with the St. Peter’s kids at their Twitter page.

• 06/29/2010 – 13:56

  St_Peters_Youth: Eating our feelings. Thank god for the cheese puffs.-the gals
• 06/29/2010 – 13:54

  St_Peters_Youth: Golly ya’ll, my hair is just a frizzball.-emily and amber
• St_Peters_Youth: We finished the living room! Onto the kitchen. . . Oy. Covered in dust. Black buggers

• 06/28/2010 – 22:51

  St_Peters_Youth: Thank god for sonic. Goodnight jersey-amber
• 06/28/2010 – 21:33

  St_Peters_Youth: Having an icecream treat at sonic after a long hard day of work
• 06/28/2010 – 20:50

  St_Peters_Youth: Chore for the night – dishes! Of course it was rice and beans.
• 06/28/2010 – 19:10

  St_Peters_Youth: Or a ceiling!!
• 06/28/2010 – 19:09

  St_Peters_Youth: Long dayyyy but fun sooo much rain:) im nvr taken a shower for granted again!!!!!:)~ally

• 06/28/2010 – 16:56

  St_Peters_Youth: Showers needed
• 06/28/2010 – 13:25

  St_Peters_Youth: Instead of tan lines we got dirt lines:) soo dirty but havin so much fun!!!Ally
• 06/28/2010 – 12:18

  St_Peters_Youth: The crowbar is the most useful tool ever invented.-emily

• 06/28/2010 – 09:14

  St_Peters_Youth: Its raining like heck! At least we dont have to worry about dehydration!-kelsey
• 06/28/2010 – 08:12

  St_Peters_Youth: Of to work now….wish us luck:)ally
• 06/27/2010 – 23:42

  St_Peters_Youth: Things are simmering down! Hot and tired! Thats what a mission trip is about! Goodnight! – kmad
• 06/27/2010 – 21:27

  St_Peters_Youth: Wow – thats all i can say! – kmad

That last entry came right at the end of the 1,500-mile-drive….