I wanted to have a stop-over on Venus but nooo! They didn't have any flights availabe to Venus for at least 200,000 light years...so I was screwed. My name is TheChosenOne and I am a dork.
Just a little bit...I got to see some of the Martian ghettoes. It's rough living out that way. People selling all kinds of imported Earth rocks and on the streets...the illegal homosexual sapien immigration isn't much of a problem...yet..but they are starting to build fences. I was distressed by all that Martian on Martian crime...it has to stop! LOL
I was born in Huntington, WV, and grew up in a tiny, tiny town called Harts, WV. I lived there until I was about 21, then I moved to a slightly larger, yet still tiny neighboring town called Chapmanville, WV. I guess I was mistaken on the population! Though I don't believe we're over 2k any more. There's been a bit of an exodus since they closed the high school and one of the elementary schools (we only had two, and now there's only one). Last August I moved to Houston, TX, and I love it. Houston is huuuuuge, and there are so many interesting people there from everywhere in the world. I always felt strange in my little town where everyone looked the same, and thought the same, and acted the same. I love diversity. It makes me feel at home.
Was it tough for you moving so such a large city from a small town? When my mom moved from rural Mississippi to Cleveland, Ohio, she told me she felt like she was in another country. She never saw tall buildings or snow before coming to Cleveland . It was a real culture shock for her
I was born in the good old USA in a small city in ny state and i am somewhat still there just out in the country more.
It was really hard, but not just because of the culture shock. The situation I was leaving behind left me a bit worse for wear in the first place, and I made an awful lot of large life changes within a short amount of time immediately following my divorce. It was like moving to a different country, though. It really was. But you have to understand that the two places are so vastly different that of course it would feel like that. Plus you have to account for the fact that while I always dreamed of living in a large city while growing up, I never actually thought I'd achieve that thanks to certain occurances in my life, so there was also an extra added surreal feeling tossed in there as well. I loved it from the beginning, even though I was scared, though. And I was really, really scared. I didn't know how to do much of anything on my own, and suddenly I had to figure out everything, including public transportation. I'd never used public transit before, it was terrifying. I didn't know how to navigate, I didn't know where the bus stops were...hell, I didn't even know how to make the bus stop when I needed it to until I watched the other people and realized that they got the bus driver to stop by pulling a little cord. Then you get to realize I'd moved from a place with absolutely no racial diversity (sort of. There are people of hispanic and Native American descent here, but no one claims anything but white) to a place with a plethora of different races and nationalities all squeezed into apartment complexes together! It was fantastic. I mean...seriously. Before I moved to Houston I'd never really had any long contact with anyone who wasn't white, or claiming to be white. The most interaction I'd had with black people had been on the rare trips to one of the cities here (which are a little smaller than Akron, though Huntington feels about the same. It's why I felt comfortable there when I visited, cause I felt like I was just in Huntington. *L*) and even then it'd only been interaction through them working service industry jobs, really. I didn't know anyone personally who wasn't white, or claiming to be white. It was really strange, but I loved it, and I still do. I don't think I could ever live somewhere like my home town ever again. It's too small, too closed off, too closed minded for my tastes. But then, I've always known this wasn't the right place for me. My ideas about people didn't change when I moved to Houston, I'd just finally found a place that supported my ideas and proved to me that I was right about us all just being people. There are good and bad people of every walk of life, but in the end we're still just people.
Salut Maghalil, Oui je parle français . En faite j'au vu ton message mais j'ai oublié de repondre . On garde le contact. A bientot.
Hi Disposableheroine, I'm going to continue my post in french right now,I belive you speak french so let me know if you speak french, En,fait j'ai vu ton message sur lequel tu voudrais lier l'amitié mais j'ai par megarde effacé le lien amitié avec toi. Peux tu me renvoyer un autre lien amitié si tu veux? Merci pour l'attention car c'est de l'amour. A bientot
