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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

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Molly - NOLA Greetings

While you are walking around you may expect to hear, “Hello, how are you?” or “What’s up?”

In New Orleans we greet each other a little bit differently.

My dad will answer the phone with “Where y’at?”

My nanny says, “Hey baby! How you doin’?”

My friends and I say, “Hey y’all!”

My friends’ parents say, “How’s ya mom an ‘em?”

The old woman at the checkout says, “Hey dawl.”

My neighbors say to each other, “Hey Mike! I saw your sister and em while I was making
groceries! Her kids are such dawlins, growing up to be such pretty ladies!”

The warm welcomes that people will find around New Orleans, whether it be from a stranger or
a friend, are the more unique and warmer than anywhere else.

Molly, age 15
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