"In my earlier years, around my mid-twenties, my great grandfather passed away, leaving me his house. Me, being 20, was beyond ready to leave my parents house so I moved into his. It was a two-story house in the middle of nowhere. There were never many cars, trains..or anything. There were no children, or wild teens--only nature and its inhabitants. It was a big house right by the coast. I didn't realize how run-down it was until I moved in and I slept there alone. The house was spiderwebs, leaky ceilings and creaky floorboards galore. I was completely blinded by the location and size of the house, I didn't think twice about the distance from family and friends or the amount of repairs it would take to get this house to look homey.
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Ole Bill was and still is everyone's most esteemed bar. The only other bar wasn't for miles because every time one tried to compete, they would always shut down due to lack of business. Old Bill tended, lived, and owned the bar. His language was vulgar and draconian but he still found a way to make people feel jubilant. The best part of his beer was how cold it always was. Anytime you asked him, he would have a different and somewhat sardonic answer. For example, they were always "freshly sent from the North Pole," or "left in the toilet water too long." Whatever that means. He always added an emphatic wink at the end of his made up explanation.
"I hate staying with uncle Ted," I whined from the passenger seat of my mom's car while she drove almost endlessly through a dirt road.
"Did you really make people walk off the plank? Why not just throw them overboard?" The interviewer asks me from the opposite chair while the people behind the cameras adjust it to point in my direction. Pushing buttons, moving it around and all that. The lights grew warm, making the entire room hot.
I mainly noticed historical connections between everything we saw at Balboa Park. The strongest connections I noticed were to the American Settlement. There were a lot of references to Native American culture as well as the oppression of minorities reinforced by Europeans (Specifically, Native Americans, Japanese, and African Americans.) I also noticed that the stories were told in different ways/mediums. Everything we learned about took place in America or was written/created in America. There was a bunch of different museums we had to go to and connect the pieces kind of like the stations we did on Wednesday.
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