Ghost in the Oaks

Monthly Community Service Hours Completed: October : 9 hours

Cumulative Fall Semester Service Hours Completed : 10.5 hours

                    

    Ghost in the Oaks is a seasonal family-friendly fundraiser that takes place in the Carousel Gardens Amusement Park located within New Orleans City Park. The festivities include a pumpkin patch, decorate your own trick-or-treat bag, hot dog roasting station, and trick-or-treating all throughout the Storyland portion of the amusment parks. Patrons also have access to unlimited rides on all of the attractions. Some of the rides that most patrons seemed to enjoy were the Scrambler, Fun Slide, Coney Tower, and the Rockin' Tug. 

               

    My responsibilities included handing out the blank trick-or-treat bags to the children and helping them decorate their respective bags with the arts & crafts supplies. It was amusing getting to see all of the fun costumes that people dressed up in. One family was dressed as characters from Alice in Wonderland and the person dressed up as the Red Queen kept going around shouting "Off with his head!" It reminded me of the mnemonic we are using to remember the symptoms associated with anticholinergic poisoning:

Mad as a Hatter
Blind as a Bat
Dry as a Bone
Hot as Hell
Red as a Beet
Full as a Flask

    Overall, it was a very fun experience and a new way for me to enjoy New Orleans City Park.

    With respect to the Pharmacology program, all of my focus right now is continuing to learn more in the lab and preparing for the upcoming Principles of Pharmacology and Medical Pharmacology exams next week on the Autonomic Nervous System. Wish me luck!