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Nola Buddies

When I found out that I was going to a buddy/pen pal from New Orleans, I was very excited, but also very nervous at the same time. I was nervous because I was thinking: what will we have in common? What will be different about us? Will we be good pen pals to each other? Will my pen pal be the same gender as me? I had so many questions! It turned out that my buddy is a boy, we don’t have many things in common, and he was a good pen pal. All of our buddies are in 3rd Grade and they all go to the same school, the Lusher School. Later on, I found out that the Lusher School (and other schools in New Orleans) were planting a tree nursery to help save the trees in the wetlands, I felt really happy. It felt good to be pen pals with someone that was doing a little job to help save the wetlands in their environment.

Since the start of when we got our buddies (the start of the school year), we have been continuing to learn about them and they have been learning about us. New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras (pronounced Mardee-Gra), the day before Ash Wednesday. Translated in English, Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday! New Orleans is continuing to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, which hit in 2005. The Louisiana State Bird is the Pelican. The Lusher School is planting a tree nursery because that certain type of tree is being chopped down by an animal in the wetlands called the Nutria. The nutria is very closely related to the beaver.