When I first decided to move to WY, I got a lot of advice on how to survive. In addition to a brutal winter and completely different landscape, I needed to adjust to a little bit of a cultural change. As one friend, and former Colorado resident, said, I'll need to adjust to the rugged individualism of Wyoming. "Try not to share your feelings to early". I feel like I also maybe should have a bigger car or at least more articles of flannel . . . but my favorite advice came from one of the WCC program directors. He said "You're probably going to have a lot of trouble here in the beginning. You are from the East coast, you're liberal, and you think about things . . . try not to talk for at least your first month."
Well it has been more than a few months, and I'm starting to adjust. Really there isn't much difference when you surround yourself with the kind of people you enjoy. I don't talk to much to the neighboring apartment with 3 Ford F350 Trucks that wake me up on occasion because the diesel fumes start to seep into my 1st level apartment. I also don't talk to much to the girls with bleached blond hair, fake tan, and wearing high heals in the dead of winter - although truth be told they probably don't spend much of their day worrying about me talking to them. I do have a blast with the 11 other crew leaders though. These are people who are ready to devote a summer to working and living outside, so they have to be cool.
I don't know if I'll move back to WY after the summer, but I'm certainly not ruling it out.
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