PathFinder award for Freedom Summer 08

I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE THE SOUTH! okay now that I let everyone know where I'm coming from on that one haha. I am not kidding the first thing I am doing when I get back is finding out how to wrangle myself into a Montgomery high school U.S. history classroom. I love it down here and Alabama is so pretty. I want to live there, specifically Montgomery. I had the most fun exploring that city at night despite a cop car at every other block haha. Montgomery was some good times for me. The bus has become like a second home to me. I'm going to miss Tony our bus driver and all his smart cracks and amazing bus driving abilities. But I'm not here to talk about what I'm going to miss. I just wanted to post a blog from Nashville and talk about the beautiful southern towns we have visited and the amazing southern people. There was this one guy at the breakfast in our hotel in Montgomery who was telling us he met a guy who asked him if they were shoes in Alabama. I was dying until I realized he was serious. I was like "Dang, I know people joke about being slow and southern but I didn't think people actually thought southerners are that dumb and uncultivated" For goodness sake this is a region that was its own country for 4 years I'd imagine there would be quite a few intelligent and shoe wearing folk about. Oh well thats why I am going to teach so there will be less ignorant people. I really encourage everyone to come down south and take a tour of something, anything. I guarentee you'll find some history that will intrigue people of all sorts of interests. I'm planning a trip to Montgomery for spring break next year. Anyone wanna come with?