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

Haley - Mardi Gras

MARDI GRAS IN A NUTSHELL

Wake up.
Get dressed.
Rush to day parades.
Walk around aimlessly in the streets searching for familiar faces.
Stop to watch the floats passing by.
Scream “Throw me something, mister!” until your throat is sore.
Take a break to go eat.
The sun starts going down, and you go back out.
Walk towards all of your friends.
Run up to people you haven’t seen in a while.
Meet people that you feel as if you’ve known for a lifetime.
Stay out until you can’t take it anymore.
Go home and talk about everything that happened that night.
Sleep.
Wake up.
Repeat until Mardi Gras day.

Haley, age 15
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