Sit and Watch

When I was young my dad always told me to "sit and watch"...now that I'm a k4 teacher here in the south I have changed that saying to "don't ask what your eyes can answer". I know understand a whole lot more why my dad said that...I would say it as well if I had five daughters.

Economy

I have been on the hunt for a better paying job. I have a bachelor’s degree which is a bonus but no relevant experience..bummer. To add to the difficulty Memphis isn't exactly known as booming economically, which has become ever more evident in my job search. Well tomorrow I have an interview as an assistant...still not great pay but about three dollars better than what I'm making now.
  One point goes to the North for having a better economy.

North - 1    South - 0

Speach Problems

Recently I have found myself saying words such as "yall" and "fixin". What do these words mean anyway? The fact is I'm not planning on "fixin" anything...its not like i'm about to go fix a car or something. The south is starting to infest the way that I speak...It might be time to consider relocating.  :-)

Unfriendly People are the Best

Unfriendly people...Man do I miss them. I know it's sounds strange, and I would have never called my PA friends unfriendly, but compared to the south...us PA people seem like downright grumps.


Here in TN everyone...and I mean EVERYONE is your friend. It's rather deceiving actually. I'm a VERY straight forward person. My family tell me I'm blunt but I prefer to call it honest, and as a person who can't mask who she is I simply don't understand this so called "southern hospitality". Everyone is nice here and all waving at you when you drive past. Those friendly conversations were reserved for friends, along with the waving.


Know I have to admit I have started waving to the random person in my neighborhood as well. At first I felt like an absolute creeper and now I kind of feel a part of the club. Of what club I'm not sure yet...but there is definitely a club down here. Maybe it’s simply the southern club where everyone is your "friend" and no one is really your "friend". In the North, yea, maybe people are a little grumpy. And yea, maybe they are a little unfriendly. But I miss knowing that when I finally broke through that shell that Pennsylvanian’s have I was their friend. I mean REAL friend. The kind of friend that would give you the shirt off their back. The kind of friend that would defend you when others talked badly about you. The kind of friend that you don't see for ten years and when you finally see them it’s like nothing has EVER changed. A faithful friend...a REAL friend.


So yea Unfriendly people...I miss them. Not really because people down here aren't good friends but because the friends you make in the North aren't just good friends...They became like family.

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Memphis Tennessee.....WOW! How did I get here? When my dad called me at college telling me we were moving again I was cool with that. The exact words that came out of my mouth were "that’s fine...as long as we don't move to Tennessee I’m up for it. So where are we moving?" There was a short silence and then came the terrible answer..."Tennessee". No this was not some very unfunny joke...a month latter my family packed up and moved to Tennessee.


I pushed of the dreaded move myself as long as possible. I was up in Wisconsin finishing up my undergrad in humanities/photography. However the dreaded day did come in May of 2011 I graduated from college went to Turkey for a month and then made the drive down south to Tennessee. Dun dun dun!


Why such hatred to Tennessee you ask? I'm not sure I really know the answer to that question. Maybe because I love the North so very very much. I was born in Colorado (which is a neutral zone), but I moved to Pennsylvania on my first birthday and have been in love with the state ever since. I mean Gettysburg was less than an hour away from my house...How much anti south of a place can you get! Not only was I raised in the north I decided to go even farther up North for college to that freezing state of Wisconsin... Man I miss those cold cold winters.


"So what’s the point of all this?" you might be thinking. Well after living here for a year I can no longer bottle up the cynical comments inside of my head. I must share them with the world...and perhaps the humble pie I have had eat in recognizing the wrong presumptions I have had towards the south.


Feel free to join me or not...either way I'll be entertained by the crazy voices inside my head that finally get to be released onto the page.