Child of Pine Zoe 10/11/12

Downtown Athens

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Prompt #1:  Ray expresses appreciation and disdain for her heritage, in particular, aspects of the geographic location and the poverty in which she has grown up. Ray also expresses a necessity in "turning back to embrace the past" (32). When you are older and look back at your time growing up here in Athens (or for new folks in another region) what aspects of your "ecosystem" do you think you will remember fondly? With distaste? Can you pinpoint any one part of your current ecosystem that you believe may shape your future? Do you think you will want to "turn back and embrace" Athens later in life? 


When I grow up, one thing I will remember from my ecosystem now is all the college students. I think this is a good and bad thing I'll remember. They can be really loud sometimes, and party a lot. A lot of college students live in my neighborhood, so on the weekends I can usually hear parties going on. This can get annoying, because it causes  me to lose sleep sometimes. This is a good thing I'll remember because the students make the town really diverse, and filled with a lot of different types of people. People come from all over to go to UGA or to teach there. Athens is a very diverse place, it's not just a regular southern town. If it were, I think I would get bored with the same types of people. But with the college students living here, it makes Athens a much cooler place to live. I will also remember downtown Athens. There's a lot of really cool stores and restaurants there, and I never get bored when I'm walking around downtown. Clocked and Ted's Most Best are two of my favorite restaurants, both very unique and appealing. Also downtown are the UGA arches, the Georgia Theater, and close by is Sanford Stadium. All of these places are places I will remember when I grow up. I think when i grow up I will definitely want to go back to Athens, and visit the places I did as a young child.  

Some places in Athens, GA