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, February 28, 2012

Brittany - Down in New Orleans...

Down in New Orleans,

We don’t walk our alligators on the sidewalks, we contain it to our back yard

We don’t wear beads as regular jewelry, unless it is Mardi Gras season

We don’t all live in “the city”, there is Uptown, Metairie, the west bank, Kenner, Harahan

We don’t pronounce it Nawlins, its New Orleans

We don’t hear jazz music everywhere we go, in fact its mostly only on weekends outside of a bar

We don’t actually believe purple, green and gold look good together, but it's convincing during Mardi
Gras.

Down in New Orleans, were unique, were not able to be duplicated, were truly New Orleans

Brittany, age 17
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