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So a week ago, I think, I posted my top ten favorite places on campus, now I'm going to post my top ten favorite places in Louisiana, and maybe next week I'll do the country.
1. Matt's apartment in New Orleans - We have had so many amazing times there, whether they were crazy parties or just mellow hang outs. The days I spent wasting away my life in that apartment will always be important memories not only because of my time spent there with Kip but also with all of my dear friends
2. Camp Hardtner - Honestly I could do a top ten list of all my favorite places at Hardtner as well, maybe I'll reserve that for a day when I am feeling really "Hardtner sick." But seriously, sometimes I would sit on the Cafeteria porch and look out over the lake and it was so beautiful and perfect. Or when there were just a few of us hanging out and talking behind the CL I would just feel like there was no where else in the world I was supposed to be.
3. Centenary - I love this school. It took me a while to realize it, but it will always hold a dear place in my heart. The friends I have made here are irreplaceable, and to think that this year may be my last with many of them is really heartbreaking.
4. My old house/Neighborhood in New Orleans - I loved my house. It was small but it had character and a history. My neighborhood was beautiful, oak trees lined the street and looked breath taking, especially in early summer when the crepe myrtles were blooming. There was a small park halfway through the block as well with that big, gorgeous oak tree on it. I would move back there in a heartbeat if I could.
5. Our house in Alexandria - Originally, it was my grandparents house, but now we live there. And by "we" i mean my parents and my elder sister. It really is a gorgeous house. It's U (ish) shaped with a courtyard/pool area in the back. THe backyard goes all the way down to the bayou, which became a good smoking spot. The inside is beautiful as well, my grandfather was quite the perfectionist.
6. Independence, LA (Lynell's house) - Lynell is a friend of the family and she has this great house out in the middle of nowhere. Its beautiful and she has a crapload of land and its just amazing out there.
7. St. Andrew's Episcopal - My elementary school/church. It was really quite beautiful, I love the Kindergartener's garden most of all. They had a rosemary bush (that my dad donated) that I would love to smell everytime I walked past it.
8. Esplanade Ave / Cabrini High in New Orleans - Its where I went to highschool. Cabrini was really quite pretty, especially the old building. Cabrini was on one side, a cemetery on the other. You could walk down about a block and hit a little grocery store, I can't remember its name but it was really cute, you wouldn't be able to find a place like that in shreveport. And then about three more blocks down there is a CC's coffee (best coffee in the world) One more block there is a Whole Foods. On the other side of my school was a bayou which we would go canoeing in for PE sometimes. The cemetery across the street though was one of my favorite things. I know it sounds creepy to hang out in a cemetery but it was a really beautiful quiet place to go and think, and possibly write (that was when I still wrote). I miss high school a lot sometimes.
9. The levee near my house in New Orleans - I loved to walk to the levee with my dog, I didn't really appreciate it that much until I was older but walking down there and watching the river was really quite amazing. And then I could walk down about 5 or 6 blocks and go to the DeWitts fruit stand. That place has always been a staple in my life, my mom would always buy us fresh fruit from there when we were kids and the lady who ran it would give us a free banana. I know it sounds dumb but it was a good childhood memory.
10. Kincaid lake - Lake in/near Alexandria. Sometimes when I'm bored on a nice day I'll drive out there to do some reading, its really really gorgeous.
So about 4 days and 19 hours till I'm 21. I'm excited but slightly depressed. At the risk of sounding angsty, i think its because I miss Kip so much. I wanted to spend that day with him above anyone else. Its been almost two years? Why can't I get over him?
1. Matt's apartment in New Orleans - We have had so many amazing times there, whether they were crazy parties or just mellow hang outs. The days I spent wasting away my life in that apartment will always be important memories not only because of my time spent there with Kip but also with all of my dear friends
2. Camp Hardtner - Honestly I could do a top ten list of all my favorite places at Hardtner as well, maybe I'll reserve that for a day when I am feeling really "Hardtner sick." But seriously, sometimes I would sit on the Cafeteria porch and look out over the lake and it was so beautiful and perfect. Or when there were just a few of us hanging out and talking behind the CL I would just feel like there was no where else in the world I was supposed to be.
3. Centenary - I love this school. It took me a while to realize it, but it will always hold a dear place in my heart. The friends I have made here are irreplaceable, and to think that this year may be my last with many of them is really heartbreaking.
4. My old house/Neighborhood in New Orleans - I loved my house. It was small but it had character and a history. My neighborhood was beautiful, oak trees lined the street and looked breath taking, especially in early summer when the crepe myrtles were blooming. There was a small park halfway through the block as well with that big, gorgeous oak tree on it. I would move back there in a heartbeat if I could.
5. Our house in Alexandria - Originally, it was my grandparents house, but now we live there. And by "we" i mean my parents and my elder sister. It really is a gorgeous house. It's U (ish) shaped with a courtyard/pool area in the back. THe backyard goes all the way down to the bayou, which became a good smoking spot. The inside is beautiful as well, my grandfather was quite the perfectionist.
6. Independence, LA (Lynell's house) - Lynell is a friend of the family and she has this great house out in the middle of nowhere. Its beautiful and she has a crapload of land and its just amazing out there.
7. St. Andrew's Episcopal - My elementary school/church. It was really quite beautiful, I love the Kindergartener's garden most of all. They had a rosemary bush (that my dad donated) that I would love to smell everytime I walked past it.
8. Esplanade Ave / Cabrini High in New Orleans - Its where I went to highschool. Cabrini was really quite pretty, especially the old building. Cabrini was on one side, a cemetery on the other. You could walk down about a block and hit a little grocery store, I can't remember its name but it was really cute, you wouldn't be able to find a place like that in shreveport. And then about three more blocks down there is a CC's coffee (best coffee in the world) One more block there is a Whole Foods. On the other side of my school was a bayou which we would go canoeing in for PE sometimes. The cemetery across the street though was one of my favorite things. I know it sounds creepy to hang out in a cemetery but it was a really beautiful quiet place to go and think, and possibly write (that was when I still wrote). I miss high school a lot sometimes.
9. The levee near my house in New Orleans - I loved to walk to the levee with my dog, I didn't really appreciate it that much until I was older but walking down there and watching the river was really quite amazing. And then I could walk down about 5 or 6 blocks and go to the DeWitts fruit stand. That place has always been a staple in my life, my mom would always buy us fresh fruit from there when we were kids and the lady who ran it would give us a free banana. I know it sounds dumb but it was a good childhood memory.
10. Kincaid lake - Lake in/near Alexandria. Sometimes when I'm bored on a nice day I'll drive out there to do some reading, its really really gorgeous.
So about 4 days and 19 hours till I'm 21. I'm excited but slightly depressed. At the risk of sounding angsty, i think its because I miss Kip so much. I wanted to spend that day with him above anyone else. Its been almost two years? Why can't I get over him?