The past few days I have been able to enjoy some good conversations with close friends of mine. It is truly comforting to be able to know that there are family and friends who care for me so deeply.
Oh good ol’ Louisiana….
What I have seen of this state I have really enjoyed. Despite the humidity here it seems like a wonderful place to live. For one, the scenery is absolutely stunning. I personally love driving down the neighborhood streets where the tree branches are covering atop from one end of the street to the other. Nature in general is absolutely incredible, and is something I have grown to appreciate more and more these past eight weeks.
The people that we have met here have been nothing but hospitable to us. Giving us their beds to sleep in, feeding us breakfast, taking us out to eat for some true southern food, and simply spending time with us giving us tours of the cities.
Today we had a screening down in New Orleans. My team and I decided that it would be cool to go down to Bourbon street earlier in the day and walk around. It was filled with countless amounts of souvenir shops and restraints where you could get your New Orleans gumbo, crawfish, and jambalaya. The architecture of the buildings were so different from other places that I have been before. I was very surprised to see how little the French Quarter was affected by Katrina. It looked as though Mother Nature didn’t get a hold of them.
Fun event for the day: It is a must that when you go to New Orleans you must go to the beignet café and order some beignet and coffee. Beignet at French doughnuts that are topped with powdered sugar. It is not a must that you eat all the sugar that is on the plate however. Once we were done eating the beignet my teammate says “hey ill give you five dollars if you eat all that sugar” I had told him “no way”. He progressively increased the amount of money that he was going to give me. Once he got to fifteen I thought to myself, mm…I bet I can get him to give me twenty bucks. So I ate approximately six tablespoons of powdered sugar and boy did I feel sick!
Note to self: Don’t ever do that again unless it is for $50.00 haha.
This concludes my New Orleans experience for now I hope you are all doing well and I miss you all very much. I am looking forward to seeing my friends and family back home.
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