The last few days haven't been entirely eventful, so I thought I'd just lump them together. Yesterday I wrote an entire manual for Ninth Ward residents to learn how to write a business letter. I also started a Microsoft Excel manual, which I continued today.
My Urban Geography of New Orleans class was fascinating; we learned about how New Orleans was founded and why it was created where it was. Interestingly, it was almost a Spanish or British colony at different times, but the French won out in the end.
We also spoke about what our research papers might be on. I'm thinking about studying how a town or city (either in Lexington, MA or Athens, Greece) formed around a historical landmark.
Today an all boy's Catholic school (I sense a theme!) from Philly arrived. They and another group from Berkeley did yard clean-up. I spent the rest of the day working on the Excel manual.
I love you, Jennarl
ReplyDeleteFrom Wikipedia: "The priest-chronicler Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix described it (New Orleans) in 1721 as a place of a hundred wretched hovels in a malarious wet thicket of willows and dwarf palmettos, infested by serpents and alligators."
ReplyDeleteAn auspicious beginning, no? And fires, hurricanes, and FEMA, and you've got the whole book of Revelations!
You're doing great work!