Something I really noticed in New Orleans was what seemed to be a need for identity, something I don’t really see in Olympia. What I mean by Identity is like there, in N’arlens, in all the stores it seemed there where L.S.U(D) merch, or something about Mardi Gras. I suppose because there isn’t much else down there for them other then Mardi Gras and the French Quarter, and the Universities, they really don’t give a fuck about nothin’. Like I’ve said before the streets are neglected and what construction I did see (outside the Quarter) was just standing dinosaurs in sandbox. I suppose Im being objective as an outsider, I do really love it, I would like to go back, but its just a fucked up place. I guess everywhere you go out side of the “Cascadia” region seems like a fucked up environment but it feels like those who cant get out just wallow in their sorrows by fucking and getting disease, drinking to oblivion on the streets (its not illegal to walk around drinking as long as its in a cup or something that wont break… Im going back when I’m 21., I have to say, a lot of people told me to be careful and watch out for hostility, of all the things I really didn’t feel like I was in a hostel city, it felt more sad and pathetic than anything.

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