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

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Ashley - NOLA Myths

No, I don’t have a pet alligator

I don’t live in the bayou

I don’t take a canoe or an airboat to school

I don’t shoot my own dinner every night

I don’t carry a shotgun

I don’t ride a trolley

I don’t eat “bag-nets” or “pray-lins”

I don’t walk around shirtless at Mardi Gras

I don’t go to Bourbon street and get wasted every night

I’m not a cannibal because I eat “poor-boys”

I go to church, not voodoo rituals

I ain’t stupid, I be edumacated and I no tawk Cajun y’all

So stop stereotyping New Orleanians. Because even though you may not understand us, we’re
awesome.

Ashley, age 17
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