LJI S11 Week 8 - My True North

[tigrkittn]

"It's always been done this way."

I'd been hired as a unit manager at Murdoch Center, a home for children with severe developmental delays. I had a BA in psych and seven years of experience working in group homes, but every suggestion I made, either to my staff or to my supervisors, was met with a withering look and the same phrase:

"It's always

Comments

[ryl]

Lifelong Kakalakan here:

The college basketball thing...being an actual fan isn't a necessity, but you are required to take a side on Duke vs. UNC. (I'm on Team Duke.)

My mom was from New Jersey, so I grew up with a lot of Yankee-isms. Like bagels. We always had bagels, even before they were popular. Whenever we went to visit my grandparents we always stopped at a WaWa so we could get Tastykakes. Which you can now buy in the store here, so yay!

As for the snow thing....we can't drive in the stuff. It's for everyone's safety that we shut down.

[tigrkittn]

Slow down. Brake gently.

That's it. Now you know how to drive in snow. (I'm not kidding. There's no magic to it.)

[adoptedwriter]

Yeah. I went to Florida State in Tallahassee. The “ugly” thing. I get that.

[millysdaughter]

Come June the next, I will have lived in nodak for 40 years.
Forty!
I am not, and never will be, part of "us."
People still greet me (upon first meeting) with "gee, where are you from?"
**shrugs**
I wear tennis shoes, drink coke, and use ugly as a verb describing bad behavior.
I'm from Albuquerque...

[karmasoup]

I can relate to a lot of this. Not the North Carolina bit, but I came from the South, and I understand a lot of those colloquial quirks. Also, the dialects of a big change like that are an adjustment. I already knew the language of the South, and being from Florida, much of the East coast, too, since there are some parts of Florida that are much more East coast than South. Coincidentally, there are a lot of New York transplants here in Minnesota, and I often find I feel more at home with them than I do with native Minnesotans. Yeah, nothing would ever get me to take an interest in basketball, either.

[roina_arwen]

I can relate to this on SO many levels as a transplanted New Yorker who moved to KY! (Go Cats!)