Orange: 6 facts about my home town
1) This isn’t a fact really lol but tbh I hate it here. I’m back for a few months right now but I’ve made every effort to get away, and it’s mostly stuck.
2) It’s not really big, or really small. It’s about 85,000 peoeple
3) It’s actually on an island. This is a big island though. Like I still go to uni on the same island but it’s nearly a 3 hour drive and you have to go over several big mountains and stuff. You can actually see this island on some world maps and everything. It’s about 33,000km (the whole island)
4) The population is pretty much entirely old people and suburban families. There is some other stuff but it’s mostly that.
5) there are 5 malls but only one good one. This was a big deal in high school since that’s one of the only things to do so we hung out there a lot. (Until we were old enough to start partying lol. and even then we hung out there during the day)
6) Even though it’s a shitty town imo, and most people I know agree with me lol, nature wise it’s actually very pretty. I mean this whole region of canada is, and it doesn’t have anything too remarkable, but there’s some nice hikes and stuff
Blue: 9 facts about my family
1) We do not get along. Like I’m friendly with my extended family, but I have very little in common with them and I’ve never really been close with anyone, nuclear family or otherwise.
2) My parents were never married, and they’ve been separated since I was about 1. They very much hate each other lol. My mom, and the majority of her extended family so far as aunts and uncles and grandparents go live on the island, my dad and his 4 kids from his previous marriage all live in Utah. (though not together, my parents are much older .My mom is in her 50s, but my dad is about to be 70 and all his other kids are late 30s, early 40s)
3) My mom, and all her immediate family, are immigrants from Norway. I’ve never been, but I have a lot of extended family over there and the family I have over here is all very norwegian still, my grandma is even the president of the island chapter of sons of norway
4) While I’m not religious, everyone on my mom’s side is lutheran christian and everyone on my dad’s side is mormon (except my dad who is nothing lol)
5) I didn’t grow up with my 4 older siblings, and I don’t know them all that well, but I have a younger brother that’s 7 years younger than me and I did grow up with him. I technically only have half siblings, but obviously the situation is very different having grown up with one of them lol
6) On my moms side I have more extended family than I can count or name or ever meet, and our lineage has been recorded entirely in Norway, dating back several thousand years of almost exclusively scandanavians
7) alternatively, on my dad’s side, not even he knows who his father is and I have no extended family that I’ve ever met (I know I have a few uncles, my dad talks about them, but I’ve never met them)
8) Ive pretty much never lived with my father. I spent a couple month with him in high school, and when I was really young I used to see him every second weekend, but I’ve never actually lived with him.
9) Despite this being my biological family, in a lot of ways my friends are more my family than they’ll ever be, considering I’ve made a lot of effort to separate myself from my family over the years and while it hasn’t been entirely effective, my family isn’t exactly a great one, so I do really try to keep my distance. I moved out young, before even graduating high school, and while I’ve come home (to my mom) for a couple months twice between places I do make a lot of effort to make it on my own, and I’ve done a lot better since leaving.