I've never dressed up for Mardi Gras... and usually by the time Fat Tuesday rolls around, I'm so worn out from all of the festivities that I substitute going to Zulu and Rex with ordering takeout and watching Netflix in an effort to recover from the weekend. This was easily the best thing I've done all year. We definitely looked weird, but the parade watchers loved us! I've never taken pictures with so many strangers in my life! It took us about 20 minutes to make it a single block down the parade route. Even though "King Cake Babies" seems like such a natural choice for a Mardi Gras costume (or at least to me it does...), we were the only ones that we saw all day! We walked all over the city: from the CBD to St. Charles and Jackson to Royal Street to Frenchmen and then back to the CBD.
As much as I love carnival season, I'm glad that the "resting period" between Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest has finally arrived. I now have more time to focus on my schoolwork, volunteering more, eating better, and exercising.
As I spend more time with one of the KIPP first grade classes, Southern, I am realizing that I would really enjoy to work with children some day, hopefully as a pediatric specialist. As I'm getting to know some of these students a little better, I very much look forward to my time spent at KIPP each week. Learning about antidepressants this block, I very much think that that a viable non-pharmacologic treatment approach might be more time spent with first graders, especially those in Southern.
