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

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Francie - NOLA Influences

What comes to mind when you hear the words New Orleans?  For me, it is
one word, SAINTS. It is not necessarily the team itself that has
affected me so much, but more the ideas of hope and prosperity this
team brought us after the hurricane.  The reason I love my city so
much is because we do not let anything bring us down.  The Saints were
the one thing that brought our city together and helped us tell the
rest of the country that we were going to come back stronger than
ever.  The topic of the Saints is also something that can unite very
different people together.  I do not know how many times I have bonded
with someone that I otherwise would not have talked to because of
their Saints attire.  The night the Saints won the Superbowl was
and is still to this day the best night of my life.  I cannot explain
the pure adrenaline and excitement I felt.  The Saints will forever
remind me of my beloved city and the incredible community that calls
it home.

Francie, age 17
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