New Orleans: A Personal Narrative Of My Life

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As a child I grew up in a small, country town which is located 45 miles east of New Orleans, it’s one of those one horse towns and the horse died. Everyone that lived around there was all family and if they we not related we knew their relatives. It was a community where everybody knows everybody, and everybody knew everybody’s business. During my elementary years in school, I attended Midway Elementary then time progressed and before you knew I was in middle school, Natalbany Middle is where I attended. It was then that I had a second thought of what it would feel like going to the big city and bright lights. One day my mom had a horrible toothache and her Dentist referred her to a specialist, located on First and Claibourne Street in…show more content…
After she was seen, she came out with two missing teeth and a swollen jaw. On our way home there was a horrible wreck on Interstate 10, there were people and sirens everywhere…my portrait of the city wasn’t so great. About 2 years later, my uncle fell sick and the local hospital couldn’t do him any good, they rushed him to the VA hospital in New Orleans…where he later died. Again my view of the city wasn’t so great. A couple more years passed, by this time I was a senior in high school and Senior skip day was approaching and all the students wanted to skip to New Orleans. So we all agreed and we were on our way. After getting there our first stop was Bourbon Street. We walked and shopped and had a good time. Our next stop was Canal street, there the people were wild as ever! Some were still celebrating Mardi Gras, we saw these huge buildings beautifully designed and there were artist on the street, they were so talented and creative and the paintings were breath taking. We processed further on Canal and we begin to see folk that engage in the alternative lifestyle. These folk seem like they were having so much fun. It was laughter, drinking,

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