My parents were worried about their flight. They were to leave on Monday.

When we left we thought we?d be back in four days.

The (resident assistant) came around and told us that the storm might now be coming.

We got to New Orleans Thursday night. We had heard Katrina was heading towards the Florida panhandle.

I was a gymnast when I was younger. My parents put me in gymnastics, and I was actually only good at the floor. I was terrible at everything else, especially beam. Unfortunately, you can't be a gymnast unless you're good at all of the apparatuses, so I became a competitive cheerleader. I was just the main tumbler for my squad.

After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said, 'That's fine. We support you, but you have to go to school,' which was fine because I'm a studious person anyway; I enjoy it.