Waurika
On this blog I've mentioned several places in the UK that were special to me (e.g., Llandovery/Wales, Belper, Birmingham). The U.S. has some places like that as well. One of those is Waurika, Oklahoma. For those of you who don't know the story, here's a brief summary:During 1998, while I was living in San Jose and attending SJSU, I was invited to the Waurika High School prom. I had never been to Oklahoma before, but it sounded interesting. Although everyone (maybe including myself) thought I was crazy, I drove the 1,600 miles and attended the prom.
It was awesome. Everything in Waurika was totally different from everything in San Jose. The prom itself was in a barn, which was a great change from my 2 previous proms (one at "the Palace" and another on a yacht under the Golden Gate Bridge). I immediately loved the town and the people who I met there. I knew I wanted to live in Oklahoma some day.
While I was there, I was told about a little school called "the University of Oklahoma" that happened to have a good meteorology program. By August '99 I was living in Norman. My prom date was still a great friend, as was her mom who helped me find my first apartment here. We kept in touch, and they have been great friends to me since then.
Yesterday I went to Denton, TX to visit her as well as her mom, husband, and daughter. I wish I could do that more often. It's so neat that we're still in touch.
Her husband is one of the nicest people I've met. He's also a certified hypnotherapist. Yes, he did hypnotize me while I was there. That was an extremely interesting experience. Maybe I'll give some details in another post...
3 Comments:
It was so great to see you. I really enjoy your visits!. I still tell that story of prom too.. lol.. With all of the stories out there about bad things coming from the internet.. its so great that we can share such a great story!! Who knew that you would end up living in Oklahoma because of that.. lol.. I still remember your amazed expression over our "little trees" and "funny stop signs" which by the way, I still do not know how our stop signs were different... lol..
Thank you so much for visiting.. and seriously.. it needs to happen more often... :).. and thank you again and again for helping with my mythology website... you are AWESOME!!
I wonder...
are there people who it is impossible to hypnotize? Or is it all voluntary?
Matt, have you read anything about the New Perspective on Paul? Trying to understand his writings as dealing with a first century Jewish audience sounded like your kind of thing. I'd be interested to see a blog of some sort on such a topic.
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