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  • Kalypso you are an amazing kid with an amazing heart ... I hope you keep up the progress of the videos . I would love to move there....And soon I may!

  • there should be more children like you, especially here in New Orleans.

  • Good job on the vid....Im from New Orleans 2. Unfortunatley Katrina was my senior year in highschool. That couldnt hold me back though.

    New Orleans 4 Life!!!

  • how long can i stay away? Man what a beautiful phrase, Loving Nola forever!!!!

  • kalypso sweetheart, you did a great job..I can only say you know, when us, human, become greedy and do not do the correct thing, we make others suffer. This is exactly what happened. I agree with mrbiteymouth.

  • It wouldn't be a bad thing for those criminals in the White House to see this video. Maybe they could divert their attention from enriching themselves and finally feel a litle shame. Then again, maybe NOTHING would cause those demons to feel shame.

  • This is great Kalypso.Sorry to hear your house got damaged.You are a cool girl.

  • Great job Kalypso:)

  • 504 forever!!

  • Very well put together for a ten year old. Sounds like you are about to have an asthma attack bewteen your words.

  • very well done, thanks for posting, from a NO native.

  • Anyway as a european you will often feel more at home, because of the rich culture that dates way back. The old buildings, the rich history, the love of good food..the fact that the city has a town center that is alive and vibrating. All things that you will find in Europe because everything is older over here. And then ofcourse there is the music! can't compare that to anywhere else in the world.

  • excelent, New Orleans is so beatiful city, I love!!.

  • We should wipe you off the face of the earth.

  • I apologize, if you are from New Orleans. I was being emotional.If you knew how I dreamed of going there and the night I arrived,it was all lit up like a fairyland. I felt free and grownup.I didn't even realize that I had no money and just the clothes on my back.My friend,who went with me,had a sister living in the French Quarter. She said my friend could stay with her, but not me. My friend refused.

  • It's okay.New Orleans is very messed up now but it will come back and it will be better than before.

  • I am a european and I have been all over the States. The place I found the most fascinating was New Orleans. There is a culture and an atmosphere there that is very rare to find in the States.

  • ..and the drunks..stay away from bourbon street. The drunks are usually tourists

  • Do you know where the Jax Hotel is? It is probably not there anymore, an old abandoned building where homeless people sleep. We lived on St. Phillip street across the street from the Seven Seas Bar. Lots of mornings we tried to wake up drunks on the sidewalk of Decatur Street, so they wouldn't get arrested

  • I don't know the Jax hotel, but I do know Decatur st. I know there is alot of partying and alot of crime in NO but still..there is an atmosphere. My husband is from NO and he told me that often he would find drunk tourists in suit and tie sleeping it off on the sidewalk.

  • Yes, the atmosphere is there all right. Especially on a hot summer night when the evaporation hangs in the air.

  • Never been to a Mardi Gras. That is portrayed as a nighttime activity. I'm not used to it being so bright in February.

  • GREAT JOB Kalypso!!! You should be extremely proud of yourself - awesomw job kiddo!! :)

  • Hi, your work is gerat. It seems like very well done film. You have the potentional. Thanks for showing rest of the world what new orleans went through. Keep posting updates.

  • Moving images and great song selection. You should be very proud of yourself... great job.

  • You sure have talents in filmaking. I never been even close, but remebere how shcked we all was seeing the results from the hurricane on the news.

    Fascinating special city. Much drama history. Like to come there one day. Regards from Norway

  • My eyes fill with tears watching this. New Orleans has my heart. And even though I live only 45 minutes north, in Ponchatoula, I can't bring myself to visit as often as I would like. It STILL does not look like New Orleans. Though, its better, I hope one day to see it back to its former glory.

    I hope you have found your way home somehow.

    -Sam

  • I cant imagine what it is like for you.

    I live in the uk and we dont have things like this.

    Just thinking that it could happen is bad enough not having to live in fear of it every year!!

    I hope your all getting on well with rebuilding your houses.Drop me a mail, i would love to know how far things have come.

    Nikki XXX

  • Wonderful video, Kalypso. My old hometown and always in my heart.

  • I wish I still lived there... but I'm coming back tommorow for a vacation.

  • i hope you can live there again someday

  • Thank you little lady for your video.

  • Wow, Kalypso (I love your name!). This is a very moving video, and you did a wonderful job making it. I was fortunate enough to visit New Orleans in January of '05. I went to Baton Rouge in the summer of '06, and had the opportunity to see New Orleans again. I was scared of what I'd see and didn't go. You are so brave. (you're only a few years younger than me too) God bless you and your family.

  • You are an incredible young girl and I am so glad that I found this video. I teach 5th grade French and would love to show it to my students. May I have your permission to do that? Again, merci mille fois for a wonderful example to the adults of the world.

    Madame Donna

  • Meuk1982: I see that you are from the netherlands. Why dont you bring your hyper-intelligence down to N.O. and tell them how to run things. Im sure they will listen to you. Or better yet why dont you come down and pick up a hammer and start rebuilding instead of sitting there telling us what to do. You sure seem to care alot. YOU DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT NEW ORLEANS! You're just another bird-brain outsider that thinks they can solve Louisianas problems from your computer.

  • photod33z: Don't get angry, what good does it to you? I'm a Belgian and it is well known in western Europe that Holland people are quite loud, and like to think they know best. On the other hand: indeed, a large part of Holland is below sea level. Not far from where I live there are large coast defending structures that were built there after the storm of 1953 in which many people died. It's a sad thing that sometimes horrible things have to happen in order to make things better. All the luck.

  • photod33z: Don't get angry, what good does it to you? I'm a Belgian and it is well known in western Europe that Holland people are quite loud, and like to think they know best. On the other hand: indeed, a large part of Holland is below sea level. Not far from where I live there are large coast defending structures that were built there after the storm of 1953 in which many people died. It's a sad thing that sometimes horrible things have to happen in order to make things better. All the luck.

  • And, sweet girl, if you read this, I like your movie. I hope you guys build up your beautiful city and enjoy it. I'd really like to visit New orleans. And if you guys travel in Europe, visit the Netherlands! we'll show you our fight with the water..:)

  • ...just because we have to. How is it possible that the richest nation on earth couldn't handle this? With our knowledge New Orleans would be there as it was. I cannot believe this. What a brave city, I feel related to these people

  • I'm crying, I can't believe this. What a great, brave girl, who is this girl? I'm also very angry. I live in Holland, and something just like this happend to our country in 1953,a lot of people died. But ever since then we managed to keep the sea out. almost 50% of our country, including our capital Amsterdam lays beneath sea level, about 6 six meters, 18 feet. We have the knowledge how to, ..

  • i love u 2 thanx for putting this video togeather im from new orleans it was devesting when katrina hit i stayed it was scary

  • You did a Great job baby girl. I love everything that you showed. I am from Baton Rouge and my heart is with you and everyone else from New Orleans. Much love, Crystal

  • Yeah well the reason why the lower 9th ward was hit the hardest is because Hurricane Katrina was racist.

  • This video is adorable. Too bad this little girl has no clue about rebuilding N.O. All she does is repeat the same old tired argument. I think everyone has heard your point of view. Unfortunately NONE of you have a workable solution. You are all simply complaining. Well I guess we can put forth a bill in congress condemning severe weather. That would be a big waste of time. So I challenge you. Lets hear a REAL WORKABLE SOLUTION. That dosent involve the government being your parents.

  • What are you talking about?

  • yo mama.

  • What the hell are you talking about photod? If that idiot government of yours had paid attention, instead of focussing on 'the war on terror' alone, this NEVER HAPPENED! The richest, most powerfull country in the world could'nt forsee this??And after the disaster.. OMG. We have the know-how on a platter buddy...for more than 50 years half my country lives 18 feet below the surface of the sea...including our capital. Your government is stubberd...you should be ashamed of yourself

  • Really? Well I hate our government too. Thats why I dont ask them for bailouts. NO government ever does anything right, accepting war. What genius government are you a citizen of and how many times have we kicked your asses? Im sure no one cares about what happens in your country. I dont. Why do you care so much about what happens in mine? dipshit.

  • Thank you for your touching tribute to the cultural treasure of New Orleans and what it means to you and your family. This marvelous national treasure will not be restored without the people who made it what it is, and that will not happen with the permanent displacement that will occur with the destruction of low-income housing units that are being bulldozed this holiday season while 12,000 mostly black low-income residents remain out in the cold for good.

  • Call/email Sen. Feinstein! Ask her to sign SB 1668 (Gulf Coast Hurricane Housing Recovery Act of 2007) to replace low-income housing in New Orleans! Stop the bulldozing of existing structurally sound low-income units!

  • And thank you Anne. Thank you very much. How about instead of harassing a senator you start comming up with a solution. Anyone can complain. Public housing is being torn down all over the country because it dosent work. All it does is create crime and cost taxpayers millions. This has nothing to do with race. Stop using the race card. You arent helping your cause.

  • This is a gread video. Your family has done a tremendous job in promoting your efforts and I applaud all of you. I'd like to know how the family is doing now. Where are you living and so forth. 1/1/08.

  • I grew up here.

    Les BON TON ROULETTE!

    When it is just us, there is no black and there is no white. It is divided by neighborhoods mostly. WE were all TOGETHER In my old neighborhood.But after Katrina, I guess it is all gone now. When the yuppies move in, the PEOPLE move out. GOD BLESS NEW ORLEANS,MY HOME TOWN ( My family since 1720 RIGHT HERE!)

  • great video

  • Thank you for capturing the heart and spirit of New Orleans, Kalypso. Even now, 2-1/2 years after Katrina, as you know, so much is left to be done. Your video reminded me how much I love New Orleans. It's the people that make the city such a special place....people like you! Thank you.

  • A great video, Kalypso! I'm from Germany. Last winter I spent one semester in NOLA and I loved the city. Even after Katrina it's a wonderful place and I wish I could have seen it before the storm.

  • well done Kalypso, this is a wonderful document!

    we left (mid city) after katrina when my son was 4, and 1 of our biggest regrets was that he will not be a n.o child, like you obviously are......keep up the good work!

    much love

  • i luv this video u r my favorite!

    -luv ya from your new orleans girl makaila

  • The comments to this video I find to be interesting, but my point is pretty simple. As the rest of America becomes the same monocultural place, my family and I, as well as our neighbors and friends, are trying to make it unique. I understand why some people don't like New Orleans. But why on earth would you say bad things and use bad language on a video made by a pre-teen?

  • why do u have to call people names, did god or jesus call people names, just remember fats domino, comes from new orleans and it is the home of blues so get a life before the life gets u

  • I was born & raised in NO in Gentilly, but I haven't lived there for a long time. After Katrina, I felt like a part of me had died. I wasn't there to see for myself so it seemed like all that was there was lost. But your video showed me that all the great things about NO that I always loved & held dear were still alive & well. People like you & your family will be the reason it lives on & becomes the city I remember. I know it can't be easy being there, but I'm so glad that you are. Thank you!

  • That's right That'sTheTicker86!

  • coolestdude80...see how much you know buddy new olreans may have a place called the "french quarter" but all of the architecture is spanish...good try asshole.

    learn before you speak you dumb fuck

  • I'm from new Orleans to and New Orleans do have french roots also.

  • Sorry johnny...but you're wrong too. The French Quarter was built during the Spanish occupation of Louisiana but the architecture is not purely Spanish. It's a blend, actually, of French, Spanish and Carribean, called "Creole" architecture. There are several original French colonial buildings in the French Quarter which did survive the fires and still stand today, and many buildings built by the French living there after the Louisiana Purchase.

  • I feel so bad because i was born there and now live here so i feel like a loser or jerk. CURSE ME!!

  • Its not your fault. Sorry....

  • you no have no idea what NOLA is. u must be some hick from miss.

  • New Orleans was filhty before Katrina.

  • collestdude's quite and ironic name consdering you're a jackass. Way to buy into stereotypes, idiot.

  • Lasigmaman. You must be a New O-person. You cant spell and you have no movies. Braniac. What a loser.

  • thank you for telling him/her that

  • This is simply one of the very best post-K New Orleans videos I have seen.

    This short video says more than others do in an hour.

    Very good job, Kudos. -- a New Orleanian

  • Thanks for sharing Kalypso. I started visiting New Orleans in fall of 2002. I've done Mardi Gras weekend 4 times, and I'll be back for the next one if I can. Great video, it brought a tear to my jaded eye.

  • Thanks for doing that God Bless You

    Katrina Took my whole life away too.

    But thank God we are still here

  • maexxxgan, here's an idea. Why don't you just stay away from Mardi Gras? We don't go to Bourbon either, but we love the parades on St. Charles. And romka4567, we are back in New Orleans and loving it. Thanks for your support.

  • no your wrong ive done it all and it gets old and its really a waste of time if you think about it.....you yell for cheap dirty beads that will most probably be thrown away, and some even fight over them...and bourbon...i will never go to bourbon again for mardi gras thats all im saying about that one

  • i live in new orleans and i hate mardi gras it fucking sucks

  • you obviously werent born in N.O. or you never spent mardi gras with the right people

  • well u stupid then move and im from the 9th ward

  • if u idiots miss new orleans go bak simple as tht

  • really introspective & thoughtful video. hope u get a chance to check out my dedication video, "USED TO BE by MR.PJ" for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina

  • Nice video. I'm guessing Dad shot and edited much of it but it still has you all over it. Very touching.

    Cheers,

    John L

  • Thank you, Kalypso for your video! I miss it terribly.I caught your video today on the 2 year anniversary of the storm. I cried and truely appreciated your wonderful video! I too want to come back and will never forget. We lived in the Broadmoor area that was badly damaged as well. Mid-city was one of my most favorite places to live. I don't think that these areas get enough if any coverage on the damage sustained. So thank you for your coverage! Elizabeth

  • Well as the second anniversary since Katrina hit is approaching, I want to say that this little girl made a better video then any news person!

    I have many friends there and it is my favorite place! There is no place in the world like it and that is why I love it.The people in Nola and the coast will need our help for years to come,and we can't forget them. So I thank this little girl for making such a wonderful video, and it makes me want to come back so bad. Lets never forget.

  • Thanks for reminding me why I miss New Orleans so much! Great Job with the video, Kalypso! Barkus rocks!

  • yall did a fine job on that video, i wished you would have shown the red cross meal, i had red beans and grits off a red cross wagon,, and it was pretty good. good luck in mid city hope it comes back quicker, ive done a school repair at wicker

  • She certainlt gave me a new insight to New Orleans after Katrina, I am English but worked of Des Allemandes, into the Gulf in 1970s, What a vibrant City Noo Awlings was then, hope it soon recovers.

  • Kalypso, Excellent Job! Can we have more of your views of our hometown?

  • Amazing job editing and producing this video. Very well done young lady!

  • Great job! I'm from MS, I lived about an hour from N.O. I now live in Ohio. That video gave me chills!

  • WOW!!! All I can say is WOW!!! It still brings a tear to my eyes when ever i watch your video. Thank you, God Bless you and God Bless the people of New Orleans!

  • You are a brave, creative and insightful young woman. Thank you for this amazing video. Mariel

  • good job with the video, N.O sounds and looks like a nice place!!!

  • I loiked this video. Great job and kudos to Kalypso and her family! I grew up in New Orleans and would love nothing more than to see it return to it's former glory days.

  • nice choice of music nic film Calypso

  • great video Calypso, u can see my aunts house in Lakeview when u drive past lol

  • I liked that. The last song,was that Harry Conick jr

  • i live in new orleans too.............the construction workers suck i kno 4 sure...........i am glad u did this to show people to appresiate the things they have......i kno i do.............god bless new orleans...............lol.....­and the saints

  • Thankyou for a great video. I live in Bristol, UK. I have never seen such powerful personnel diary of the event. I can not start to understand how your life has changed, good luck.

  • Dats wassup reppin N.O!

  • Kalypso it is people like you that make me love New Orleans, and people like you are the reason why it will rise again stronger than ever.

  • I love this,the demmocrap party in louisiana wants a repulican,State Senator Walter Baosso to switch parties and run for the demmocraps.They are not even supporting their own Demmocrap Foster Cambell unless they have to.Vote Bobby Jindal and give louisiana Hope.

  • Great video. Breaks my heart. Keep telling your story and the story of New Orleans. It's a travesty that this city still lies largely in ruins while we spend hundreds of billions of dollars in a terrorist haven of our own making. I'm not a believer in capital punishment, but I'd sure like to see some serious suffering inflicted on the Bush Administration for an almost complete lack of leadership here.

  • Omg ThaT Suck Dude :D

  • WOW! This video hit me on the head. I used to live in nola and have been away for 15 years and it was sad to see the all that happened. Great job Kalypso you have a great future in journalism.Keep up the good work and thanks a bunch....Gianni-Italy

  • I am one of the ones who left New Orleans. WHile I will not return to live I will return to recharge myself. New Orleans unlike most cities has a heartbeat, a soul if you will and it gets in your bones. My home is still decorated like I am in NEw Orleans, and I decorate for Mardi Gras!

  • kalypso, your love of new orleans is what will make it rise again.

    lagniappe...

  • Dear Kalypso,

    What a great video and great reporting. I love New Orleans. I was born and raised there and I miss it very much. Your video made me cry!!

  • I loved your video. I am a former resident of new orleans and I was very touched my your video and the music. I was there last May and I was shocked at the lack of progress that had been made. I will be returning in two months and I am anxious to see the status of things. I hope things are improving for you.

  • I hope things have improved in this year, but I'm sure they're not back to normal. Keep making videos and keep letting people know what's going on there. Best Always, Dean

    --DA!

  • thanks

  • You guys did a great job with telling the REAL story, Our voice will be head, please Join the group SAVE NEW ORLEANS. I will be there in early May to see and also document what it is looking like now, my heart goes out to every in New Orleans, one of my favorite places in this World!!!!

  • very interesting - please update when you hear from your insurance company. We in the UK want to know if the US goverment is making efforts to repair the city and surrounding area.

    well done on a very informative film.

  • Cool movie. Good work young Lady!!

    p.s. I am coming to nola next month for the first time, April 2007. I already miss the place and I haven't even been there yet ; )

  • Nice you show those fuckers at fema! racist bitches!

    5/5

  • i went to new orleans for summer break last year i want to go back so badly.

  • Thank you so much for this!! Excellent! This is so important b/c it's not the news, it's your neighborhood. Makes me want to be there for Mardi Gras. I hope you you are filming 2007 update. Keep telling the story!

  • EXCELLENT! Ah, I miss that place!

  • And now we have tornados...

  • Oh, that is exactly why I'm packin' my crib up and hawling myself down there: the PEOPLE of NOLA are not only vibrant but STRONG; GOD BLESS **everyone** who returned to the city after the hurricane!

    And, of course, this gives a whole new meaning to ol' Bessie's "Backwater Blues," and I, I tell ya, it almost made me teary-eyed to hear Bessie's blues with that remarkably profound footage of the lower 9th Ward.

    FANTASTIC FILM!

  • Thank you! This makes me proud to be from New Orleans! You really caught the spirit of what it is all about. Kudos to you!

  • Thru the eyes of... and from the mouths of babes...You are a brilliant little girl. My your roots always grow deeper and your limbs stronger.

  • You did a fantastic job. Thank you for sharing your talent!

  • thank you for creating this it means more than ppl think to me and my family

  • I'm bawlin my head off, God I miss N.O. Wonderful job little one! God Bless you & your family!

  • Kalypso - YOU rock. if your fam is up by the avenue pub at parade time, look for us : )...thank you. i needed that. don't stop asking questions.

  • Do you go to NOCCA??

    you should

  • Great music choices

  • Kalypso your film is great! I cried! I miss Home:( NOLA 4 Ever!

  • great video kiddo, keep up the good work!

  • did I hear that fuckin parrot sing "Iko Iko"?

  • Congratulations to Kalypso - a job well done

  • Rebuild the twin towers, rebuild New Orleans!  Awesome vid Kalypso and great name to boot!

  • this event is the ultimate proof that Us system has failed. US=criminal state

  • 10 years old!? What a smart and talented kid! Well done!

  • Excellent piece of work. Bravo!

  • congratulations Calypso,plese send me a singer name of 1 music in these video!!!!thanks! god bless you!

    max brazil

  • thank you Kalyspo I suvived Hurricane Katrina In New Orleans. You are a brave and smart young lady and I just wanted to thank you personally for making this video. My name is Susan

  • Great music too on this video. Congratulations and hurray to Kalypso on this video endeavor. I would love for her to make another video about the effect on children and their new schools, or no schools, social life, sports, etc. Keep at it girl!

  • I love the cultural value of new orleans with the black, french/spanish/indian mix going on. And although I know its crime there it amazes me of how the citizens of New Orleans conclude that they are the only ones who are going through crime. Did they think robberies. murders. thugging. prostitutes. and everything else started and ended around a population of 500,000 in a country that has over and proably much more than 20 million people?

    They live in their own lil box

  • Both good and bad, New Orleans is what it is and that why people like it.

  • wow. yeah, i'm definitely New Orleans citizen by heart even though i live in Poland :). wish you all the best. hope to see this wonderful city, and maybe live and drum there someday :).

  • excellent job, try to show clips from the balls of the Krewe of Comus and Proteus. Those are old crews that really put on a show at their balls and no one knows about it.

  • Kalypso you did a really nice job. I know this is not the last I will see of you. You have the makings of a fine News Reporter or film maker.

    Shame on all of you who posted inappropriate language on this talented childs documentary.

  • Did yall who were bitching realize you were bitching to a 5th grade girl? Jesus.

  • Stevo199, sorry you are so bitter about New Orleans. But regardless of your ill feelings towards New Orleans, I'll go on loving it.

  • Once your car gets broken into 3 times, you get robbed at gun point, your house gets struck by an arsonist, and you get beaten up because your a white kid who got A's, then I'll give this 5 stars.

  • You are rediculous, you have no clue what your talking about, I guess i better not get any A's because I might get beat up, and everytime I walk out in the street I get beat up because Im white, o and my house gets burned down about once a yr, uhhhh NOT. That is not how it is in all of new orleans, get your facts straight before you start on a mindless rant

  • have you ever lived in new orleans, bigz? i dont think so. PEOPLE HAD DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES IN KATRINA, NOT EVERYONE IS THE SAME!

  • bigz!!! u r a mindless stuipid person!!!! i was born in new orleans and lived there my whole life!! im WHITE!! i have never been beat up!! so get your facts straight!!!

  • I have lived in new orleans all my life to and ofcourse that stuff never happened to me and thats what I said in my comment, I was being sarcastic and replying to stevo199's mindless rant. I just dont like when people who have no idea what their talking about say stupid things about new orleans that arent true. If you read stevo199 comment you will know what i am talking about.

  • Don't say that I know nothing about New Orleans. I wasted my entire childhood and teen years in that shit-hole. Im out because that place has a massive crime-rate, not because of Katrina. I am never going back. Ever. I give this 1 star because there isn't a magical bubble that keeps Mardi Grai trapped in New Orleans.

  • I'm not impressed. That entire thing talked about people, tourism, and Mardi Grai. The people are all in Houston and San Fransisco. They aren't coming back, I don't blame them. And tourism and Mardi Grai can go anywhere. And Chris- sex, drugs, and lotting. Is basically what New Orleans does. Most children drop out of school at 14 there.

  • I was born in new Orleans, and I live only a short drive away in the Bay Saint Louis area of Mississippi. Its great how well you captured Naw'lins spirit. No one see's this side. They see the sex, and drugs and roberies that CNN televises. I'll try to spread this video as much as I can. Thanks, so much *big hugs*

  • excellent work. I wish you and your family well.

  • wow, that was really good. I'm looking out for you in the future.

  • this is really cool! i know kalypso from school.

  • That was beautiful and moving Kalypso! It made me cry......Thanks for sharing that. I love New Orleans too!