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Once every few weeks a new topic will be displayed on the blog. Young people, ages 5 - 96, will submit their responses. Student writing will be posted as it is received. Know someone that would love to contribute? Pass the word.

Blog #14 Topic Choices:
Write about a place or an aspect of New Orleans that has influenced you OR use the words "Escaping the heat/to get out of the heat..." of New Orleans.

Submission Logistics: Submissions should be in response to the blog topic. Poetry and prose, up to 500 words in length, should be emailed as a Microsoft Word attachment. Emails should include author’s first name, age, and School.

Submissions can be sent to: youngneworleanswritingtogether@gmail.com
Submission due date: May 31st, 2012 @ 5pm

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Annie - NOLA Myths

“So you’re from New Orleans?”

“Yea, why?”

“Oh I’ve just heard a lot about New Orleans.”

“Like what?”

“Well just that people there are crazy and they all flash for beads at Mardi Gras and they get drunk all
the time and go to the French Quarter.”

“Oh well that isn’t true.”

“What do you mean.”

“First of all, we aren’t crazy, we are just New Orleanians and we are an amazing and special group of
people. Second, not many people flash for Mardi Gras beads. It’s mostly really drunk tourists who think
that is what you are supposed to do for beads. Third, most of us don’t go to the Quarter a lot.  It’s more
of a cultural tourist center, but we do go there to celebrate big things like the Superbowl. New Orleans
may have some crazy people but it’s the best place I’ve ever lived and I wouldn’t change it for anything.”

“Oh wow I never knew that New Orleans was such a great place. I need to go there and visit sometime.”

Annie, age 16
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