PD: I actually live in a city where "natural disasters" tend to change peoples lives from time to time. I also came to this city to start college (2004) and finally stayed here. I know that "blur" feel.
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Thank you; I've written most statuses and stuff like this for years. Just a habit. Try to include friends in my travel stories and all.
You said it was a blur for you, too. What I do look back favorably on was just being able to study quickly and efficiently and get things done. I didn't really realize that there was any other way to be except a good, non-lazy student, and always did everything as well as I could. It worked for graduating very quickly and with all A's, but it all went by in a flash. Not to say I didn't go out and do stuff--it was New Orleans, and a bar was closer to me than some of my classrooms (I lived on campus)--but I just wished I still had that naive drive. I'm doing a self-directed master's degree now, and I mess around and go slowly because there's no pressure. First world problem for sure, so I'm going to go put things in perspective and eat a ham sandwich.
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Seems like it was just yesterday that Katrina hit... can't believe so much time has passed.
Post-secondary was kind of a blur to me as well... there are some memories that'll always remain (and I'll revisit), but it's best not to dwell on the past (good or otherwise).
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I agree. I haven't been back to the city since I graduated, but I plan to go back soon.
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This should be posted on high school forums, makes a normal first day of college seem like a piece of cake compared to this.
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At least none of us died. I was living near Tokyo in Japan in 2011 when the tsunami hit, and many of them didn't have the same luck.
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You keep dodging major bullets, that's terrifying.
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Oh, I wasn't involved in that one directly. I was hundreds of kilometers away. Just had a party planned that night at my house. The waves started coming in around 3 or so I think, and we got off at 4. It turned into a quietly-watch-the-news party.
Mt. Fuji was anticipated to be due for a new eruption at any time when I was living nearby. It didn't. On the other hand, the New Madrid fault line near my house has apparently rumbled recently.
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I would advise you to move but that doesn't seem to help in your case :).
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Bump and thank you! And enjoy your malibu and I wish you and New Orleans the best in the future!
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Wow, what a story. Why was the intro video called like that tho? Some kind of way of saying "Shit is going to hit the fan" according to Tulane U?
If it's of any comfort my time at school and on university is just a quick flashback to me, I remember more the time spent with family and friends outside of the places were I studied during those years, but when people talks about elementary school or university with nostalgia I just let out a big fat MEH
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It was an orientation video; just an unfortunate name, all things considered. I bet they've done a title change since then.
Elementary school with nostalgia? How would you even remember more than little snippets of episodes that happened here and there?
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I have read that few times and I don't know what to say. I wish best to New Orleans. I always wanted to visit that city, but after Katrina I heard it's not like 'old' New Orleans anymore. I have seen few documentaries about this city then and now so I think I might have idea of whole situation, but honestly I can't imagine what you felt then.
I only hope that city itslef and it's people will eventually rebuild they lives.
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I plan to go back there soon for a visit actually. I was there before and after Katrina, and while it was different, in the more touristed parts, I couldn't really tell a difference. It's the composition of some neighborhoods that has changed a lot, along with some people who moved and never came back.
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It's good to know that. Still, when I visit some places, expect few mandatory landmarks, I don't really care about turist parts. I like to see how some place really looks, not how it wants to be see by guests.
I hope someday I will have a chance to see it with my own eyes.
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I wish you the best of luck now, thanks for sharing :)
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Wow, that was rough.
I've only experienced earthquakes here and there but I'm not sure how I would fair against gale force winds.
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People who stayed or lived there had it a lot worse than I did, for sure. We left before the real storm started, but the rains followed us northward. Had a lot of little earthquakes when I was living in Japan. Ran out of my bed in the middle of the night once to the entry door, butt naked, and my neighbor saw me. Our eyes met, then hers moved downward slowly. The building's swaying shook the sin out of her.
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That's a helluva story, my friend
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Bump and thanks for sharing with us! To better experiences and good times ahead! :)
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Interesting story and nice writing style, cheers. Are you the butterfly that causes the bad weather? ;)
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Would appear that Mr. Cow is making me question my sexuality.
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This could be another troll story, but whatever i think it could be suitable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw_Lf-JhdSU
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Thank you for sharing your interesting story. I've been blessed to not live near anywhere with major natural disasters. Currently living in Washington State now though, so I may run out of luck in the future if I'm around when the mountain blows.
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Great true story and very well related. Thanks for taking your time to share it with us!
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Considering i'm closing my 10th year in Uni it's not a blur ;)
great story :)
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what a story, i hope that you never have to face something similar again
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I dont know if not remembering your college memories is bad nor not, because since primary till senior high school i got bullied a lot and i still remember most all of them -_-
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I was younger ten years ago--through some fluke--and thought I had my whole life ahead of me. I wanted to leave my small town and live in a big city, which is something I'd never really seen, and was therefore very important to see.
I applied to Tulane University in New Orleans for one reason: there was no application fee before November 1st. They overlooked this shitty reason and accepted me as I was. New Orleans seemed like it might take me in too, so I accepted them back, just to not look like an asshole.
In 2005, Facebook was new, wall posts were an easily erased notepad file, and I thought it was all very stupid, but I met some other new students there and gradually got to be excited about living and studying there. In the summer months, Tulane mailed this DVD welcome pack titled "Hit the Ground Running." None of us really knew then how apt this advice would turn out to be, because on my first day on campus, Hurricane Katrina was causing us to pile in buses and evacuate northward.
We ran. We spent the better part of a week sleeping in a gym, eating peanut butter sandwiches, jumping in rainstorms, and, before the power went out, watching the city fall apart on TV. Many of those people shown on the news had a much, much worse experience. We will probably hear more about their stories in the next few days, when everyone else has a reason to remember.
My own story is that I didn't get very much time at all in that city that I'd wanted, graduating after four semesters on campus. College is just a big blur to me, with very little standing out when I look back. I know I was there, I know I did some things, and I know it sometimes involved a goat, but most of it feels like it was just going through the motions. It's the best time of some people's lives, but for me, it was barely even enough time. I never forgot those first few days of my adulthood and the people I met as a consequence, though. Now, it's one swig of Malibu rum to looking back, and one to looking forward.
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