Life and Interests: A Visit to Franklin, Louisiana

We arrived at UMCOR Sager-Brown in Baldwin, Louisiana, Sunday evening.

We checked in and got our name tags and room keys. We would be staying in Zook Hall. Zook Hall is a one story long building at the back of the UMCOR Sager-Brown campus.

It has a large women's bathroom, two smaller bathrooms and a very small toilet bathroom. It has a living room right inside the front door. It also has a laundry room in it with two side-by-side washer and dryers. It also has several tables along the walls for folding laundry. Also, the laundry rag and towels were also folded in this room for us to pick up as needed and use. There were laundry basket style hampers in the bathrooms for used towels and rags to be dropped in and then they would be washed, dryed and returned to the stack of clean ones in the laundry room.

I stayed in Room # 27 with Carole Hahn. They put the names on the doors of the people staying in the room and the state they are from. Usually people from same state or group are in same room.

Here is what our room looked like. There were 3 beds in it. One is to the left of this picture. The window looks out over the bayou. The building's air conditioning unit was also outside our room so wasn't really that quiet.

There were two hanging closets in the picture above and two dresser drawer units.

The resident who stays in the room is advised to leave a note for the resident who will be

occupying the room next.

Sunday night, before our mandatory orientation meeting, we drove to the nearby town of Franklin, Louisiana. Sunday was one of the evenings that they don't provide a meal, but we went to the town of Franklin to eat dinner. On arriving in the town, Pastor Debbie wanted me to take a picture or two of this cemetery above. Since they bury people differently in Louisiana than we do here in Arkansas.