This weekend I'm traveling to New Orleans for a much needed break. Whenever I tell someone where I'm going, the immediate response is "Why?" My thought is, "why not?!" I've been hoping to find some inspiration to prepare myself for my last year at UT Austin and to enter the classroom. I entered this field hoping to reach at-risk youth through performing arts. I can't think of a city in the county that needs it more. We make a lot of assumptions about people based on where they "choose" to live. I want to see it for myself. I want to have a reminder of those I am doing this for. I want to be among people that have the will to survive in spite of their circumstances, and rebuild regardless of fear of another disaster destroying their lives or their future.
One part of the city I am especially excited to see is in City Park. According to the park's website, you can:
"Climb aboard Captain Hook’s pirate ship, journey with Pinocchio into the mouth of a whale or scamper up Jack & Jill’s Hill in City Park’s Storyland, a charming fairytale playground adjacent to City Park’s Carousel Gardens Amusement Park and the New Orleans Botanical Garden.
Brimming with more than 25 larger-than-life storybook exhibits, this storybook fantasy play area is inhabited by sculpted characters created by New Orleans’ finest Mardi Gras float makers." http://neworleanscitypark.com/carousel_gardens.html
I feel a creative drama lesson coming on...
