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My buddy, from the lower section of Dalton (the third grade) is helping me write a post about his class’s buddies in New Orleans.

When I first heard that we were going to have NOLA (New Orleans) buddies I was nervous that we (the NOLA buddies and I) would not like the same thing. When I got my buddies first letters I was relieved that we liked the same thing. I learned a lot from their letters like that Louisiana is famous for its swamplands and some of their favorite activities. In 2005 New Orleans was hit by the famous hurricane Katrina. The most water damage was from the breaking of the levees. The levees are waterways that lead water around New Orleans. New Orleans is shaped like a Bowl so it was very hard to get water out of there. One of the feelings of having buddies 12,000 miles away is, cool because not many people have now, or have had buddies that far away. Some feelings I can’t explain. They feel something like happiness and friendship.
Our NOLA buddies are planting trees for a program that helps make more Bald Cypress trees. Bald Cypress trees are important to New Orleans and Louisiana. They are endangered mostly because of humans cutting them down for land for oil refineries and draining the swamp for places to build houses. It is also due to animals called nutria that eat their wood. It is perfectly natural.

That is my buddy’s post!