Return to the Delta

On Martin Luther King weekend, I went back to the Mississippi Delta for the first time to visit my friends from Institute. It was so wonderful to see these girls that I had only seen or talked to through skype, phone calls or texts, in between all of our busy teaching lives. Being with them again was so comfortable – going out to dinner, driving all around Mississippi, fooling around while we were supposed to be lesson planning – like I had never left. It was a much needed reunion and really great to see what their lives are like in their region! I didn’t take as many photos as I intended, but here are a few.

I’d never seen Mississippi from the sky before, and it was beautiful! I took 3 flights that Friday to get to Greenville, MS. It was the smallest airport I’d ever been to, right in the middle of a cornfield (it reminded me of Hollandale in that way).  I wish I took a picture of the recliners they had that I was lounging in, or the creepy airport cop that was half hitting on me, half trying to kick me out of the airport.

Saturday we went to Oxford, MS, Home of “The Harvard of the South.”

Oxford again

On the way back to Greenwood from Oxford. Love the delta sunsets.

Julie decided to walk down the hill this time, rather than rolling down like she’d done 10 minutes before.

Friends Helena, AR