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Life After Hurricane Katrina
"So today I had the dry ramen noodles that I broke up, and that’s kinda’ gross but when you’re in this situation you aren’t so concerned."
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By Ashley Smith
I really, I think I’m the only person ummm, probably between the ages of like, 15 and 25. You make friends in situations like this that you wouldn’t expect to make.
But it is difficult, because all my friends are scattered everywhere. And then you know, you feel shallow or whatever because you’re not sure if you’re ever going to see your clothes or books again and then you like, hate yourself for wondering about those things.
Well I was writing a book about, actually, growing up in New Orleans which is sorta’ funny. When I got to the hospital after the first day and it looked like it was gonna’ be a while I started to write down everything I was thinking and everything I was feeling. That’s one of the few ways I can get my nerves calm.
And then the more crazy things that would happen it was a movie that kept making itself and didn’t really need to be written. After the first sniper was shooting at the building, that was the first crazy event.
After that, my mom was with a patient on a different hall and they were joking around about how lovely they looked because you know we haven’t had showers in a long time. And they were making a joke about how we should make an attractive disaster calendar and that was pretty funny.
The hardest part is that we don’t have anything to warm anything. Having been in college I don’t really mind processed food, but we don’t have anything to warm anything. So today I had the dry ramen noodles that I broke up, and that’s kinda’ gross but when you’re in this situation you aren’t so concerned.
I have been working on a conclusion for my book, and it’s sorta’ funny because I have no idea when we will be leaving. I’m not sure if that will be the end of the book, or if it will just be continuing, but I’m sure they’ll get us out of here sometime. As of right now, I’m not sure when.
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