Hello everyone! Heidi and I are safely in Arkansas. I know, I know, you all are still wondering why we came all the way to Little Rock for graduate school. In fact, I haven’t met a person yet who has not said, “ARKANSAS! WHY ARKANSAS?” Well, to answer your questions, we came to Little Rock or “The Rock” as Arkansans call it for a couple of different reasons.
1- Heidi and I both want to change the world. I believe Gondi once said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” We want to be part of that change by helping people who are disadvantaged and oppressed. Ultimately, we both hope to inspire at-risk youth to make healthy choices like staying in school and off the streets. Heidi is getting her master’s in Public Service at University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. I’m getting my Master’s in Social Work with an emphasis in Mental Health and will eventually be a LCSW.
2- After weighing our options, we had basically two choices to make. We could go to school in Boston or Little Rock. We chose Little Rock for many different reasons but mostly because it felt right. Sometimes you just got to fallow your gut.
So there you have it. Now that we are here there are days that we honestly think, “What the hell were we thinking?” It’s hotter than anywhere that I’ve been. The humidity is suffocating and makes our dish clothes stinky over night. We go through laundry like toilet paper. There are cock roaches…need I say more, people drive funny. We don’t have a drive way but that’s normal here. People often park on what they call grass but I’m not sure what the grass is. I wouldn’t lay on it or anything. No one really seems to care about what their lawn looks like. The neighbors had a drive by shooting before we got here and it’s a little more dangerous the SLC.
On a more positive note, our house is coming along, we have a huge back yard with a fire pit, and a porch! We are still living out of boxes but moving in takes time. My internship is going to be incredible! AND, we get to experience a new culture, new people, new place, new things, new “mountains,” with new trails, rivers, lakes, and well new everything. Stay tuned y’all cuz I got lots to tell!
Oh yeah, and we miss everyone mucho much!
Mountains??
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