OK so first off I'm so excited that someone in this world is reading this and is still with me through this very long sentence! So, thanks for your attention!
I'm 36 years old and was born and bred in south Louisiana - where humidity, hurricanes and the heat all reside! It gets a bit cold here sometimes, but snow is something we RARELY get to experience! As for me, I love the snow and the mountains...it is where I belong and I know this because I lived in Wyoming for a year while I was in the second grade! It was simply a totally different world up there....every neighborhood had a park, kids walked to and from school, the schools let you even walk home for lunch if you wanted! I loved that powdery snow and the mountains just set the perfect scene! Even the springtime and summer were wonderful...right before the rain there was always this fresh smell in the air and as the mountain snow melted it would flow down through the streets.
Wyoming was wonderful, but after one year we ended up back here - humidity, hurricanes and all! Now, I'm not saying that the people in Wyoming aren't wonderful people (I did have a few good friends), but I guess my teacher hated people from the south! Kids call adults by their first names - no ma'am, sir, miss, Mr or Mrs is heard and I guess for some reason they write with their paper perfectly straight! An example: I got home one day and just said yeah to my mom...big mistake! She said yes what? I told her yes ma'am after that but explained how my teacher told me just to say yes or no....my mom flew up to that school and told that teacher off! I can still hear her saying my daughter is from the south, she was raised in the south and she will use the manners that she's been taught by the south! My little roly-poly teacher didn't know what to say after that - just ok I understand. She found other ways to get at me after that...like taping my paper to the desk instead of slanting it....I mean who writes like that anyway? A bunch of the kids did feel sorry for me and I was glad to have made new friends, but just after school ended for the summer we packed up and began the long journey back to our homeland!
