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, April 25, 2012

Megan - Rhythm

Don't Get Too Comfortable

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There is a certain rhythm associated with New Orleans that is separated from the various
famous music genres that this city is known for. With rhythm comes routine and with routine comes
comfort. People become comfortable with the things that do not seem to change around here, the food,
the weather, the people, etc. When the temperature drops below seventy degrees, the Academy of the
Sacred Heart students wear sweat shirts and complain asking why the heaters are not on. I am so used
to the dry heat during the recent weather, that I was a victim of a basically flooded car due to an open
sun roof and an unexpected thunderstorm. People get so comfortable with the usual beat of this city.
They do not know how to handle any other way. Some may leave at some point in their lives to try and
make it somewhere else, but the truth is, New Orleans is home, and many people will end up returning.

Megan, age 16
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