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

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Kaley - Mardi Gras

           "Hey Mister!"

People get crazy, and party more than ever

Everyone partying with people they have never seen

A real excuse to stay up into the morning for a multiple days in a row

People acting in odd ways with people they have never seen nor they will ever see again

          "Throw Me Something!"

People throwing away their money for no reason what so ever to random people that they have never
seen before

People fighting for things that will never matter, and that will most probably be thrown away during the
next few days

Thoughts running through the minds of the people on the floats, while seeing all the random people
yelling at you

          "I Want Something Good, not Just Beads!"

How do those people on the float feel to be on the float and get yelled at by drunk people?

What do the tourists think when witnessing this odd spectacle?

What would a New Orleanian's life be like without Mardi Gras?

Kaley, age 15
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