Day 7: Getting Ready for a Busy Week
Tomorrow begins our non-stop video shoots with people we’ve meet over the past week that we have been here. We have back-to-back appointments until we leave Friday morning for our drive back to Dallas, TX to catch our flight back to Syracuse.
On Tuesday, we’re meeting back up with Leroy, Brittany from McKinley High School and with some of their other classmates. They’re going to take us around town and show us the parts of town that inspired their poem. A poem filled with pain, hope and the yearning for technology to change and rebuild their city: Baton Rouge.
We wanted to show you just how passionate these students were about the need for change, so here are some snippets from their poem:
A false sense of confidence kept me from dangers during my adolescence.
But as I got older I bump into unknown strangers and drunk homeless people who begged me for change to spare their lives.
25-cents could buy me my very own piece of cardboard that would be illustrated “HOMELESS” or “WILL WORK FOR FOOD”….
“There is no place like home,” Alice would say, as I bop my Converse to the same rhythm she did and say the same exact words except nothing happened.
Life wasn’t a fairytale or a dream.
But I wish it was. So I could have eagle wings with a registered halo and fly away from hell.
Where it consists of shotgun houses, graffiti-infected buildings, dead folk sleeping on the sidewalks as cars pass kids playing Ring-Around the-Rosie enjoying the horrible aroma it produces.
The solution? Technology that could build a monorail throughout their city.
-Racquel
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This will be quite cool if you capture images that match their poem.
This will be quite cool if you capture the images to go with their poem.