going home
It is finally time for me to head back to my real home in Indiana, PA. I have been stuck in this annoying, obnoxious, ignorant, apathetic town for too damn long. I forget when I am at IUP how many people there are out there who are still overtly homophobic, racist, and just plain ignorant of the world around them. Sitting at my aunt's house, and listening to her, her husband, my dad, and my brother talk about how Mexicans who move into the US should have to learn english, although they apparently don't have matter enough to really count for much anyway, was in no way my idea of enjoyment. I have never more seriously considered just walking out on a family conversation. I also got to spend some time at work, bagging at old John's register, listening to him and some other older people making comments like "maybe if i became mexican i could get a welfare card." I think the part of this whole thing that angers me the most is that a lot of these people are also the ones who claim to be Christian, at least to the point that they feel Christ wants them to hate homosexuals and stop abortions at all costs. I know it seems like the cowards way out, but I feel much safer being on a college campus, even if it is in western PA. Well, I suppose that is enough ranting for now, since I will be back home in Whitmyre in less then fifteen hours now.