update

It's been a while since I've written here.

My family moved back to Pennsylvania after living for the past 5 years in Mississippi. It's interesting being back. 

 As much as I have mixed feelings on my college, I am glad I picked a college that is bringing me back to the south in the fall. Even though I will still be coming here to go to school it's weird to think I've left  Canton and will no longer have a house in Mississippi. It's weird to think that I won't be spending christmas break hanging out at Cyprus swamp.

I seriously love Mississippi

I love your overly cheerful women and and the fact that complete strangers strike up conversation with you. I love that you have 5,000 stores that sell monogrammed paper napkins, I find your obsession with beauty pageants to be kind of strange, 

I love the way your people pronounce my name Ay-uh-lin and call everyone baby.

I love that I can wear t-shirts in December. 

I love how you divide everyone in to two groups: State fans and Ole Miss fans and how one of the first questions anyone asks when they meet you is "where do you go to church?"

I love Liberty park, the Madison Wal-Mart, the MJCT, Actors Playhouse, the Canton Square, Cyprus swamp, Cups, Keifers, Malco theatre, and Heroes and Dreams. 

I love that people have FINALLY stopped calling me a "damn yankee" 

I love the sense of pride people from Mississippi have about their state and how people who have lived here their whole lives don't realize how nice it is. 

I love that Piggly Wiggly is a real grocery store and that cotton actually grows on plants.

I LOVE Sonic (Seriously, if we don't get one those in Mercersburg one day I don't know how I'll survive)

I love your obsession with show choir

I love how everyone in this state is completely insane and there aren't people like them anywhere else (In good, and bad ways) 

I love your over the top fashion

I love how crawfish are something amazing you eat and not something you just catch in the river at summer camp. 

I love all the people here who have changed my life. 

I love how even though you are ranked so low in everything as a state you still have so many wonderful qualities and you are one of my favourite states. 

I love that no matter how long this note is I will never be able to say what living in Mississippi and knowing the people here has meant to me over the past 5 years. 

So much has changed in the past 365 days it's insane. To all my Mississippi friends, my life would suck without you. 

It's just really lonely here.