Washingtonian Community Analysis

At first glance, you look at my family and see Washingtonians through and through. We live in a neighborhood that recycles, we own a boat and go salmon fishing on a regular basis, we have a garden and beyond our backyard fence is a small section of woods. My parents are both liberal scientists and I grew up listening to NPR and reading every book I could find. Now, we might not be a typical Olympian family, but we defiantly fit the bill for the general location. I myself was born in Port Townsend, but from my experience and knowledge, Olympia is just a larger version of Port Townsend with fewer authentic ethnic restaurants and drug addicts. But if you look right below the surface you'll find my parents both grew up in the Midwest. My mother was born in a small rural Wisconsin town, she grew up there, graduated high …show more content…
After she graduated, she packed her stuff and her cat into her station wagon and headed west, to Washington. In the meantime, my Dad, who lived in Minnesota until high school, when he moved to Tacoma, then moved back to Minnesota for a year, now finally came out to Washington to finish his higher education. My parents met after my dad graduated from the U-W, married three years later and bought their first house in Port Townsend where my sister and I were born. Port Townsend, as you may know, has a pretty terrible schooling system, so my family was already looking for alternative schooling options by the time I was four years of age. My mom was also looking to be a stay-at-home mom, at least for a little while because her current job wasn't allowing her the time she wanted with us, her children. So, when my Dad found a job in Olympia, which has a fantastic schooling system compared to Port Townsend, he took it. We choose the house we are in now because of it's close vicinity to Centennial Elementary, and that happens to be the school my parents decided was best for

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