An Update

So yeah, its been a while since i've updated. Well, Katrina was clearly way worse than anyone ever expected. I'm still in Alexandria, staying at Celeste's parents house. We've been here since last Saturday, but it feels like a lot longer than that. Its amazingly surreal to think that a little over a week ago, my biggest problem was studying for my cell bio test. I watch the pictures on CNN, and its hard to even believe thats where I lived. It doesn't look at all like New Orleans, and I'd only been there for a month.

Hmm, so how to even tell this story? So much has happened since my last post, I don't even know where to begin. Well, Celeste, Kathriel, Josh, Emily, Kris and I all arrived at Celeste's dad's house on Saturday night. They have been super accomodating. On Sunday we tried to pretend we were still at school, and went to the local PJ's to study. It was really tough to concentrate, though, and tensions ran a bit high. Everyone was edgy about the hurricane and we all started to get kind of snippy with each other... I was probably a bit whinier than usual. We went to the movies on Sunday night, though, and that was good for relieving some of the tension and we all made up and hugged in the car.

So Monday was the day the hurricane actually hit. It didn't even rain here in Alexandria. At this point, I can't even remember what we did that night. I think that was the night that we got pedicures and played trivial pursuit. I do remember watching CNN that afternoon, though, and looking at the damage in the city, and thinking that we would be able to go back in a couple of days.

And then the levee broke.

And it all went downhill from there, as anyone with access to the news can tell. First one levee broke, and then another, and then the city was underwater and here we are.

Fuck, time to go again. I'll post more when I can.