Cultural shock

Social media is not something new to me. I am by no means a guru in it but I can get by. I do have facebook and I did create a twitter account once. The only reason for twitter was to enter a contest with John Calapari. It was his first year as coach at Ky. The prize was a Lebron James autographed t-shirt. You had to follow him on twitter and the first 100 followers were eligible to win. He chose numbers at random and I was his 59th follower which just happen to be Patrick Patterson jersey number. He chose that as one of his winners and the rest was history. I am going somewhere with this trust me. I have always been proud of who I am and where I came from. I didn't think I had to change for no one.

Back 10 to 15 years ago I was the overseer of a Christian chat room. This particular chat room had voice capabilities in which we could chat with people from all over the world. I remember one evening we were talking about where we live and the differences in our dialect. I was amazed at how people from Louisiana had this long drawn out country voice. But they too were tickled at my accent. But I was like I don't have an accent. I am just like you, or any one else. I have never heard myself recorded until I had to create a podcast for this class. It was a shock needless to say when I heard myself speak. I was like did I actually say the "told" that countrified. Well, the answer was, YES you did. But the thing I got out of all that was this. No matter where we are from or how we sound, we can still make a difference. That is my goal. Make a difference.