| i didn't think i would have the spare time to do this because of my current situation. i am currently in mccomb, mississippi, and will be heading to grenada, mississippi, tomorrow.
why, you ask?
because of a major hurricane by the name of gustav.
i have had only four days of class so far, and on tuesday the school wants to start classes again through blackboard. i am not happy about this at all because i am not in the mental state to deal with school right now, especially since we aren't even back in new orleans yet.
i think it's pretty safe to say that i speak for everyone when i say i'm so sick of this shit. i can't help but be reminded of three years ago when everyone was caught off guard by katrina. i've actually noticed some striking similarities between my experience then and now:
* when hurricane katrina hit i was a senior in high school, and i had only had five days of class; this time i am a junior in college and i have only had four days of class.
* senior year i was the captain of the dance team, but when we returned to school in january it wasn't as great as it could have been; this time i am captain of the dance team in college, and i am already stressed out about how things will go when we return because it doesn't help that we have already had a few setbacks during the summer.
i hope these are the only similarities that i can think of because compared to now, my katrina experience was surprisingly worse than it would have been if we had evacuated that year....it's quite a story, so i will devote a separate post to explain it.
right now i'm in a weird, almost emotionless state....numb in the mind i guess. probably confused. i don't know what to think, or what i'm supposed to believe about how new orleans will hold up. on one end i'm hearing people like mayor nagin being completely melodramatic as if the city wouldn't make it at all....on the other end i'm hearing some meteorologists display a little more optimism. i'm just praying really hard that it won't be worse than katrina if it has to be that bad at all.
if you are interested, this is the link to my facebook album that i started today:
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2053723&l=c88f0&id=20405404
i could go on for a while, but i will stop here for the moment...with these final thoughts:
* ever since katrina, i hoped that i wouldn't have to evacuate again while i was still in school....oh well. i only have junior and senior year of college left so i hope it doesn't happen again...after college i want to move somewhere else just to explore different opportunities, but new orleans is always the best, most unique place ever....all i want is to enjoy it while i'm still living here for a while, that's really all i ask.
* because i'm in school, i wish that somehow all future hurricane threats could be eliminated by submitting a mind-blowing essay to God lol......not to mention i thought i heard somewhere that someone developed a kind of powder that could break up a hurricane when applied but it didn't work....keep working and improving on these crazy ideas because you never know what may work, and our livelihoods depend on it.. |
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