Home sweet home :)

For the past couple years, my friends and I have talked about nothing other than getting out of Conyers, my hometown. We complained about how there was never anything to do and how all the people were lame. Honestly, I never really had a problem with where I grew up. It's home, and it's all I really knew for most of my life. I've lived there all my life, born and raised. It isn't a very big place, but I wouldn't call it small either. You could drive from one end of the county to the other in about 20 minutes. I know this because I lived on one county line, and my bestfriend lived on the opposite county line.
The city of Conyers is a fairly busy area. Restaurants, grocery stores, national and local businesses, fast-food places, and gyms line the main highway that runs through the city. Children, teenagers, and parents could always find things to do or places to eat at, but after living there for 18 years, the same things and places started to get old. Only one movie theater and one bowling alley had to accomadate a whole county! So yes, the movies were always packed and cost way too much to watch. Despite the cost, the theater was always a common place to go for middle schoolers and teenagers because, like I mentioned before, there wasn't very much to do in my town.
It wasn't until high school, when everyone could drive and people could have house/field parties, that we always had something to do on the weekends.
During football season, it was expected of us to be at the stadium every Friday night. If our high school team wasn't playing that week, then we were probably at one of our rival high school games watching them play and mingling with the people that we call "enemies" at the big rival game between them and us. Waffle house, IHOP, and Johnny's Pizza can't wait for football season every year, because I'm pretty sure they make more money in one Friday night in September than they do the whole month of January.
It's hard to describe in words exactly what my hometown is like. Nobody will ever know what it's like until they live there and experience the atmosphere themselves. My hometown will always be special to me, and I'm sure I'll never forget one thing about it. I wouldn't even be surprised if I ended up moving back and starting my own family. I miss the people more than I thought I would, let's get serious and admit that there are always people that you wish you could just get away from. It'll be fun to go back and visit every now and then while I'm here at Georgia State.