Tennessee

It's time to bring this blog back to life don't you think?


These last six months have been a whirlwind and I loved every second of it. I'll post blogs about the adventures from this summer later but for right now Belmont...

To fill you in a little I moved in late august. I ended up in this little town about 750 miles away from home called Nashville, Tennessee to go to Belmont University. To keep it short and sweet, I love it here. The people, the city skyline view from my window, this campus, Tom's shoes, centennial park, bongo java coffee. Seriously Nashville, where have you been all my life.




There were a few things that I learned about Tennessee and this area pretty quickly that took some adjusting:

1. This is the south and around here I'm considered a yankee. The people here have northerner radar. In my first week of school three different people called me a yankee. Not in a bad way more like my great great grandad fought against your great great grandad in the civil war but no hard feelings.

2. This is also the Bible belt. I never realised how much of a liberal, non denominational sinner I was until I was surrounded by people wearing the American flag as an oxford shirt and large crosses as belt buckles. This was at an event I was working for the ICMA (Christian version of the CMAs) in Hendersonville TN. I thought I was in the twilight zone. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more churches in Hendersonville then there are in the entire state of Maryland.

3. Everyone drives slower and they hardly use their horns. I guess I'm so used to driving on the beltway but around here people take their time. They are in no hurry. Its kind of nice.

Hopefully the my blog post will be more frequent from now on.