Over the last two and a half years I have perpetually been the new kid on the block. What have I learned? That people are pretty much the same wherever you go. The solid mid-western values I’ve heard lauded so many times look a lot like my west coast values. The keeping up with the Jones’s attitude so often attributed to So Cal is alive and well in the center of our country.
I’ve also learned that people are going to like me or not, more often they will like me, but either way I have to be myself, and it isn’t worth trying to change anyone’s opinion of me. I’ve also learned that my happiness is up to me and with the right attitude I can be happy pretty much anywhere.