Opposite Side of the Tracks

My girlfriend and I have been dating for three years. I am a suburban kid that has lived more of the city life, while she has lived in a more rural setting and spent much of her early life helping do farm work and run a turf business. I am also catholic and participate in my religion regularly, while she is a different religion and religion plays a lesser role in her life. Due to her years of working, she is used to working long days and her work is always a big part of her life. I can't work long hours (mainly because I don't have the heart to) , and I like to keep my work separate from my life outside of work. Before I met her, I would feel guilty if I didn't go out on weekends, but I've learned from her that going out every weekend isn't necessary to have a good time. She is content with just watching TV or movies all day, while I like to be more active. As much as we are different, we still manage to embrace the differences. I think that's a big part of accepting other cultures. We fulfill ourselves through learning about other cultures. Whatever qualities we don't possess may be possessed by other people, which could possibly be a result of cultural factors.

" A Little Too Close For Comfort"

It had been my first time to Six Flags New England since middle school. I was with my girlfriend and a few friends of mine on a very hot summer day (if my memory serves me right it was a Thursday) . We got there as soon as the park opened, but the lines were still extremely long. The only issue was that the lines were becoming one giant see of people. For some reason, people were standing ten feet apart from one another, which made it difficult to tell what line some people were in. Even if I moved a little bit in each direction, I would bump into somebody else. I remember looking to my right and seeing a girl talking with her friend, who I assumed was next to her...but no...she was standing literally an inch behind me and I kept bumping into her. There were other people trying to meet up with friends that had no choice but to walk through the sea of people rather than go around because that option didn't exist. Once we entered the park, the situation didn't get much better, but for a different reason. People don't know how to walk. When you see someone walking toward you, changing direction would be a smart idea. But no, let's just stay the course so we can have to dive out of each others way at the last second. The situations that are easily avoidable but aren't can be extremely aggravating.

The One Day Trip to Spain

So my girlfriend and I went to Spain Restaurant in Narragansett for our three year anniversary. This has been on ongoing tradition of ours for each of the past three years, so anything less would have been a downgrade and a let down. The place is very popular with the older crowd, and that is exactly what we saw. With the exception of a few, we were the youngest ones in there by at least thirty years. I didn't mind though, that only means it was going to be more quiet. The professionalism astonishes me more and more every time I go there. When you are done with your bread, usually there is a little bit of a mess in front of you, and they come over with a crumber to clean your eating area. I understand this is something sophisticated restaurants emphasize, but I'm not used to that kind of treatment, so for a few seconds I felt like royalty. Then they brought over the shrimp appetizer, which we had been looking forward to for weeks (which sounds sad, but it really is that good). We are on a mission to figure out the recipe to the spicy sauce that they put on it. It is easily the tastiest shrimp I've ever had. For my entree I got a chicken anazula (kind of butchered the name), which was chicken breast stuffed with ham, spinach, pine nuts, and cheese which was covered in a pink vodka like sauce. She got a sirloin steak, which was cooked perfection (at least according to my taste). We always get dessert after, but we literally had no room left, so we left unable to fulfill our sweet craving. We ended up have ice cream later in the night anyway.