How do we work?

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

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Katie - NOLA Myths

“Hey I am from New Orleans”
“So do you go to Bourbon St. every night?”
“No”
“So does everyone run around naked at night in the French Quarter”
“Um… No”
“What’s that weird thing you say? Oh yeah, Who dat and d’em.Is there a genetically mutated part of your speech where you are programmed to just say grammatically incorrect words?”
“Ok that’s kind of insulting, and no.”
“Do you flash to get beads at Mardi Gras?”
“Definitely not!”
“Do you realize that the Saints are incredibly overrated andthat Drew Brees is getting pretty old?”
“Just walk away and don’t talk to me anymore”
“Is everyone just drunk all the time?”
“No, did you think about that question before you asked it?”
“How are you doing since Katrina? Isn’t it still pretty bad?I mean I don’t know if y’all are going to going to comeback?”
“We are coming back, and better!”
-         These are all true questions that I have had to respond to while traveling to other states. The truth is that everyone wants to judge New Orleans and make up stereotypes, but they can’t touch New Orleans and what it means to the people that live here.

Katie, age 16
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