Hair curled, makeup applied.
Sittin’ in church with her family,
and also half her high school.
Goin’ to church is something everyone in this town does.
Born and raised in a conservative Christian town,
Church was a place everyone enjoyed goin’.
Then
the next day you’ll find her dressed in camo head to toe.
Four-wheeling
through the mud and creeks,To the best dang huntin' spot in the county.
Sittin’ in the blind with her daddy just waitin’,
Til a big’n comes into view and she shoots.
Posin’ with a big smile for the picture with her turkey.
The
next day you’ll probably find her and her friends,
Friends
she’s grown up with her whole life,Sittin in Coleman’s on main-street,
waitin’ on Orangeades and milkshakes before the big football game.
Then ridin’ with the windows down and music loud,
Down the street to the high school.
The
football games at Death Valley attract the whole town.
The
whole student body and teachers and parents.Dressed in red, white, blue, cheerin’ the Patriots.
Today she’s wearin’ these colors with her friends,
Cheerin’ on the team in the pep section.
School spirit is something’ she and everyone has.
It’s the summer days that are her favorites though.
She’ll sing and dance next to the bonfire,
Shootin' the gun, practicing for huntin' season.
She’ll play 18 holes with her daddy at the golf course,
Before walkin’ over to the pool at Dix River Country Club.
Her favorite thing to do though is go to the Drive In,
Friends haulin up in trucks,
Meetin’ the whole high school there.
Then headin over to the Dairy Dip for ice cream.
Her
life is simple, small town livin’ on the farms.
She
knows everyone… wavin’ on the road is common. She’s sweet but you best believe her tea is sweeter.
Yeah, she’s just a good ol’ Southern girl,
She is Stanford, KY.
**I am from Stanford, KY. Its south from here about an hour away. It is from the point of view from a high school girl. I would say specifically myself, but everyone there is the same! So this description describes myself, a lot of my friends, and pretty much every other teenage girl in Stanford, which is why I chose this. I come from a very small simple country place. Not a lot happens and when something does happen everyone knows. To do this blog assignment I just made a list of the first things that came to my mind when I think of home and incorporated them into this description. (P.S. the football stadium at my HS was nicknamed Death Valley)***
-Alaina Mills
After the reading the entire thing, the part that stuck out the most was the last line, "She is Stanford, KY." I like the point of view and the story you tell. It's all fantastic. Like I said in Chandler's place, my culture brain is far too western to comprehend any of these things, but I do enjoy the way you describe them in context. it's like a fictionally nonfictional story. It's unique and I love that. And, if your football stadium was named Death Valley, that's either a good omen that you all were a good team that demolished everyone they played, or...... Haha. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! and I think it was named that because our stadium is down between two hills, so it resembles a "valley" of sorts and the death part is probably just because they thought it sounded cool! Hahaha who knows it has been named that forever! But we had our good seasons and our bad ones! We certainly did not demolish everyone! lol but we were not always getting demolished oursel
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DeleteI really like how you wrote this entire post. I, myself, am not exactly the country type, the only country part of me comes out a few weeks out of the year when I visit family who own farms and a lot of open land. I love the point of view this is told from and especially the drastic change between personalities. Going from dressed up and formal to geared up for hunting and getting muddy. The dialect goes along with this post so smooth as well, you can't help but read this with a somewhat accent you'd imagine someone from around here having! I absolutely love your post! Great job.
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