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

Monday, March 19, 2012

Megann - NOLA Greetings

Try walking through the French Market. 
"Hey baby! How you doin'?"

What about walking down Magazine, Prytania, Frenchman,
"Hey! How're you?* Great day, ain't it?" (*Pronounced "How you?") 

Take a walk down St. Charles on Mardi Gras day.
"Happy Mardi Gras!!!*" (*Pronounced "Mawdi Graw")

Keep an eye out for these greetings. They are colorful, and come in all shapes and sizes. If while in New Orleans, you find yourself wandering aimlessly down our pothole ridden streets, you will most likely be welcomed with a heavily accented, smiley greeting, delivered with precise "New Orleans grammar." But when words are not enough or when words are not available, you see a different kind of hello.

The tuba player in front of the Cathedral:
Wink, wink, hat tip.

The break dancer on the corner of Bourbon and Toulouse:
Nod, nod, smile. 

No matter where you go, what you do, who you see, I guarantee that someone will stop to simply say,"hello."

Megann, age 17
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