The New Orleans/ D.C Trip (Max)
I have had a really good time on this trip. There have bean some bad times but most of it was good. It seems like this trip has gone by really fast, we have done so many things I can’t even remember all of them. The van rides seam to pass by really fast too.
I think I really learned a lot on this trip, mainly emotional and not mental. Seeing how in some parts of New Orleans it’s like a normal city and in others it’s completely uninhabitable. When I first saw the ninth ward, (a poor part of the city that got completely destroyed)
I was really surprised. I learned a lot about how the levees broke, but it really made me see how hard it would be if that happened to me and what I would do in that kind of situation. I don’t really know if I would try to leave the city or stay. I really enjoyed walking around in New Orleans; just seeing all the buildings and all the voodoo stores was really cool. That whole part of the trip was a learning experience for me in a lot of ways.
On the way to D.C, we went through Mississippi. We went through a part right next to the ocean and all the houses were in really bad condition. There was all this stuff in the trees and some of the houses didn’t have roves. We made a couple of stops on the way to D.C; we stayed one night in Florida at this camping site. In the morning we went to this beach right next to the camp site, it was a pretty nice beach but the water was kind of cold so I only went in to my knees. Then we drove to the Meher spiritual center in Myrtle Beach. It was a really nice place. In the morning I walked to the beach right next to the center. Josh and I met this kid named David. He was sixteen, I forget where he lived. Then we headed out to Washington D.C. In D.C, we walked everywhere. We used the metro a lot too. All we really did in D.C was see a whole bunch of monuments and stuff. I had a pretty good time there but I like New Orleans as a city better.
In Virginia we stayed at this guy’s camp place. His name was Larry and had been living there all his life. When he gave us a talk about how he has been fighting for his land for a really long time. His mountain is the only one around that hasn’t been blown up. I really felt sorry for him. He gave us all these stickers that said stuff like stop mountain top removal. We walked around and he showed us all the mines that are right next to his little place. There was a truck thing that three Grey Hound Busses could park on. Then we left and made are way back home.
So I would have to say the best part of the trip was the white house. We were on the street in back of the house when these officers made us back of the street. They made us go back farther and farther. We finely found out that there was a bomb threat. That whole thing was really funny. The other thing I really liked that I haven’t said already is working with the kindergarteners at the Brock Elementary. At first I thought it would be dumb but when I started working with them I had a really fun time. At the end a lot of the kids came up to me and
Ruby and gave us hugs, I was kind of surprised but it was nice anyways. So that’s all I’m going to right about the trip because that’s all I can think of.
By Max Stollmeyer.
I think I really learned a lot on this trip, mainly emotional and not mental. Seeing how in some parts of New Orleans it’s like a normal city and in others it’s completely uninhabitable. When I first saw the ninth ward, (a poor part of the city that got completely destroyed)
I was really surprised. I learned a lot about how the levees broke, but it really made me see how hard it would be if that happened to me and what I would do in that kind of situation. I don’t really know if I would try to leave the city or stay. I really enjoyed walking around in New Orleans; just seeing all the buildings and all the voodoo stores was really cool. That whole part of the trip was a learning experience for me in a lot of ways.
On the way to D.C, we went through Mississippi. We went through a part right next to the ocean and all the houses were in really bad condition. There was all this stuff in the trees and some of the houses didn’t have roves. We made a couple of stops on the way to D.C; we stayed one night in Florida at this camping site. In the morning we went to this beach right next to the camp site, it was a pretty nice beach but the water was kind of cold so I only went in to my knees. Then we drove to the Meher spiritual center in Myrtle Beach. It was a really nice place. In the morning I walked to the beach right next to the center. Josh and I met this kid named David. He was sixteen, I forget where he lived. Then we headed out to Washington D.C. In D.C, we walked everywhere. We used the metro a lot too. All we really did in D.C was see a whole bunch of monuments and stuff. I had a pretty good time there but I like New Orleans as a city better.
In Virginia we stayed at this guy’s camp place. His name was Larry and had been living there all his life. When he gave us a talk about how he has been fighting for his land for a really long time. His mountain is the only one around that hasn’t been blown up. I really felt sorry for him. He gave us all these stickers that said stuff like stop mountain top removal. We walked around and he showed us all the mines that are right next to his little place. There was a truck thing that three Grey Hound Busses could park on. Then we left and made are way back home.
So I would have to say the best part of the trip was the white house. We were on the street in back of the house when these officers made us back of the street. They made us go back farther and farther. We finely found out that there was a bomb threat. That whole thing was really funny. The other thing I really liked that I haven’t said already is working with the kindergarteners at the Brock Elementary. At first I thought it would be dumb but when I started working with them I had a really fun time. At the end a lot of the kids came up to me and
Ruby and gave us hugs, I was kind of surprised but it was nice anyways. So that’s all I’m going to right about the trip because that’s all I can think of.
By Max Stollmeyer.
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