Who took the TV?

Over the break I went to the country. In the woods, in the middle of nowhere. No signal on my cell phone. No Internet and ABSOLUTELY no cable. Who has no cable, where they do that at? In all I hand wrote notes I took about my family gatherings and activities. I typically go back home to Chicago during the break but funds were limited so I opted to stay in the south to go and visit my grand aunts, uncles, and cousins etc. So as I traveled to Natchez, MS I got lost and in the middle of no where. I couldn't stop too many trees and white folks with pick-up trucks. I had no signal on my phone and it was getting dark. So I went back to the old colonial days before there were maps and just followed the sun until I saw a lighted gas station with cameras and a lot of people.

I made it! As I spent one week which felt like a month down there it was very non media related. I had no internet, I was in the woods so I couldn't use my cell phone (no service, what to go t-mobile), and they ate all the Thanksgiving food up from me. I bogus is that. I wasn't the only one with a cell phone but I was the only one with a Smart-Phone. Although it was limited communication, they did take me to The Boat. I didn't like it, too boring.

My Grandma and her sisters gathered around and we talked about Christ and my childhood growing up. I noticed that there wasn't a TV in any of the rooms at my Aunti house. She had no computer. Only a land line phone and one of the first radios. Very dusty too. My grandma had a cell phone, so I used her's to do all my calling back home. None of my grands and even my cousins are on Facebook and Twiiter. One day I did walk my grandma through Twitter to set up an account but that was the last time she tweeted. The cousins in my age group text and talk alot on their cell phones when they did work. But they still wasn't on Facebook. Now I know why, they didn't a computer or the internet.

I felt like I should be a Cowboy for an entire week just so I could fit in. They call me to Diva-ish and said I was too much of a city girl. BUT THEY HAD NO INTERNET. How whack is that. Only form of media interest expressed is when my Grandma found an article in the USA Today Newspaper about the return of Christ. Amen. My Grands set in the living room everyday reading, praying, listening to the radio, and asking me questions about school. There's nothing wrong with it but I didn't change my status before I left and it bothered me because it said "Headed to the Capital City Classic Tailgating at my cousin house" THAT WAS SEVERAL DAYS AGO.

One of my cousin's from Chicago she came down there with me. The entire time she listen to her IPOD built into her cell phone. Whack. What I can say the the conversations was actually intriguing. I just sat and listened to my Grands talk, and talk, and talk, and talk, and talk, and talk some more. I had fun spending real quality time.