Dear Twin Falls,
I have officially graced you with my presence for six months. What an interesting six months it has been. I have learned many lessons, and many new adventures. By all means Twin Falls was one the biggest changes of my life. Moving to a new town, not knowing a single sole, starting a new profession which I thought I was ready to handle, boy was I wrong. I have had many tears since being here, it has brought many new challenges and many new heartaches, but I know I have learned from all of them and I cannot deny that this is where I was supposed to be this year.
Why I don’t love Twin Falls:
• They have no shopping. Seriously I know that makes me sound materialistic, but I love shopping and they majorly lack that here. Sorry but TJ Maxx and Macy’s just aren’t cutting it. I miss Hobby Lobby, Ross, MAC make-up, GAP & Urban Outfitters, just to name a few.
• There is an excessive amount of smokers here, I noticed it but never said anything to anyone, but then my mom mentioned it as well so I knew I wasn’t crazy.
• The small town culture is just so completely different than the city. It is hard to explain without being in it.
• It makes me sad the lack of confidence my students have. Seriously it amazes me how many times I here “oh we’re from Jerome, we can’t read, or write, or spell or whatever else insane I can possibly think of.”
• I have been involved in more high school drama than when I was actually in high school… which I am not a fan of drama as it is.
• Mostly why I don’t love Twin Falls is because my family isn’t here.
Now I am not a pessimistic person so I must point out a few positives that I have found about living in Twin Falls:
• It takes me less time to go from my apartment in Twin to Jerome approx. 13 miles than it takes me to get from my parent’s house to Old Navy where I worked in Boise which was only about 6 miles.
• People are more grateful here, because a lot of them don’t have near as much as I have been blest with. For instance I am the advisor of a club and our national competition is in Florida this year so I was talking to my students about going. Literally they were more excited about getting to ride on a plane than anything else. I was shocked about that pretty much none of them had been on a plane.
• I truly know that my administration cares for me and wants me to succeed. They are constantly checking on me and making sure I am doing okay, where when I was in Boise I don’t even think the principle knew I was teaching at the school.
• There are so many unique features to the area. Like Shoshone Falls and the canyon and Twin Bridge, which I love being so close to all of them and have really always loved.
• I know this is one again going to sound materialistic and selfish of me to say, but I like being a young, cute, fun teacher. Basically they all think my over excessive amount of clothes (I haven’t worn the same outfit to school twice yet) are weird, but I know they secretly like them, because most of them are country kids who are very simple and plain. . My sister has always told me I was a trend setter because I was never afraid to try new things.
• I do love being only 2 hours away from Boise instead of 5, it makes it so much more convenient, yet the down side to that is that I go to Boise a lot more often than I probably should.
