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Part V, tales of New Jersey!!! WOOT! |
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You all know me as the kind of person who tends to look on the bright side of things. I am considered an optimist my most, but try to be realistic. The thing about tiny, cold, desolate, and horrible New Jersey, is I hate it. Nothing good about it...Right now, I am wishing to go back down to texas, but only god knows if thats ever gonna happen...I can't stand New Jersey. I tryto think about the good things, but all the good things either die, get eaten, or move on. It's not a pretty picture. Unfortunately, Since my dear friend Libby insisted I do so, I am now writing hopefully the final piece to my life's story. Here you go:
New Jersey. Capital: Trenton Motto: Liberty and Prosperity. Nickname: The Garden State. Bird: Eastern Glodfinch. Size: ******** 47th biggest state...Oh how I loath New Jersey...When we first moved here, I must admit I was a tad bit excited. We hadn't gone on a summer vacation that year, and that's what I hoped this would be. One giant summer vacation. I had to be optimistic, didn't I. My sister on the other hand, didn't like the idea at all. She flat out grumpy every second of the day. We had traveled up here in a van with our pets, staying the night in hotels in different states on the way. Being from Austin, I had never seen so many trees. It was like a forest surrounding us, 24/7.
When we reached New Jersey, we stayed in one specific hotel for about two months. That was actually fun, mind you, and it reminds me of that cute little show The suite life of Zack and Cody. It was during the winter, and for the first time in my life, I saw snow. not the Texas sort of snow that comes every 8 years, but the sort of snow that you step into, and your foot disappears. It was both beautiful, and horrible at the same time. I'm the sort of gal that doesn't wear a variety of different types of bottoms. No skirts, no shorts, no capris. I wear jeans like every day. They dont help here. When you step into the snow wearing jeans, i feels the same as when your wearing shorts and dive into the Arctic ocean...it's that crazy cold. The hotel we were staying at was nice, and they gave us chocolates all the time. at 3 in the morning, me and my sis once went to the 12th floor, and raced down the elevators to see who could reach the bottom first. I won of course! ^^
When my parents rented a house there, I expected it to be alot like our old one. By was I suprised when I walked in, and into the kitchen. No frickin dishwasher...Everything was so old fashined, it was hard to believe there were lights. Ugly lights, to be specific. The worst part was, the rpad we were on was a dead end road, with like...5 houses counting ours on it. Our house was pretty big, but I still hated it. The basement was creepy, and our actual house sat alone on a big hill. down the hill was a lake, and within walking distance was a vet office, a pet hotel, a gas station, and a harley davidson(motercycle store).
My first friend in NJ was Vicki, a girl a year younger than me that lived across the street, but extremely smart and athletic. Her dad has her do every single sport, and seeing as she has two brothers, she is very good. The first time I went over, we decided to go sledding, and I practically fainted at the sight of their back yard. It was the size of a park!! They had a heated jucuzi(sp?), a soccer field, a volleyball court, a rock climbing wall, a giant hill, a tree house, a chicken coop, a tool shed, and a bunch of other amazing stuff like a giant net, and a mini car sort of thing.
That was a year ago, and the friends I made here are never going to be as colse to me as my texan friends. Two friends in particular though meant alot to me, and I've lost both of them i'm afraid. One of them is named Jenna, who i've mentioned in a previous entry. She doesn't always do good in school, but she certainly isn't stupid. She tends to be mysterious, and shares my obsession over fma and inuyasha. We hung out alot in the forests by her house, and imagined all sorts of stuff about it. She is excellent at acting, but I must admit it was one of the reason we are no longer friends.
My second friend here was Ciara, an extremly skinny, fashionable, and smart girl that I always tease about being asian because she looks asian even though she isn't. Ciara is great at singing, does dance, and did orchestra, but wasn't all too crazy about fma and inuyasha. She knew jenna since like, kindergarden, but they aren't really so close sometimes. I love them both dearly, even now, but we just sortof drifted apart after Jenna had a major family problem and both me and ciara angered her. Ciara apologized, but I didn't because I was just so fed up with lies. After that, Jenna went gothic, and me and ciara stopped talking. I miss them both, but honestly it was for the best. I dont want any attachments to New Jersey when I move back to Texas. I suppose I should make a part 6, seeing as I don't want to overwhelm you with strange stories while I've been here. Leave a comment, and get a hug, kids! =)
SmallerThanAStream · Thu Aug 03, 2006 @ 07:30am · 2 Comments |
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