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While thousands of college students headed for warm climate to enjoy sun and fun during their week off from classes, seven local students had other plans.
The Northern Essex Community College (NECC) students and one of their teachers spent part of their spring break in New York City, helping repair an area 61____________ (destroy) by the hurricane.
“I wanted to see for myself what happened,” said Terry. “I couldn’t imagine 62___________ it is like to lose your home and everything that you know and the powerful effect the hurricane had on those people. I wanted to do something, to understand 63____________ ( they) feeling of helplessness.”
The group headed into Brooklyn’s Red Hook district, which was hit hard by the hurricane. There they met people from other parts of the country, 64____________ had also volunteered to help. Together, those volunteers and the NECC students 65__________ (work) to clear rubbish out of a three-story building. They put on protective suits and gloves before they entered the building.
Inside the building, the students saw nothing 66 __________broken walls and doors and pieces of the building 67_________ (lie) all over the place.
The students returned to school with a sense of achievement, a feeling that they helped people 68__________ need. It was 69______________(remark) how a community lost so much and was still able to recover, and this left the deepest 70__________ (impress) on the students.