Blacksburg, Virginia
I'm having some of the best days of my life in Virginia. I'm staying with H, who is a friend from school, and her family. She has two younger brothers, David, who is 16, and Christopher, who's six, and she also has a little sister, Emily, nine. They've been showing me a more Southern American way of life - down here it's all campfires and iced tea. On Wednesday we walked down to a local pond to go searching for shells and found a salamander (or at least Emily did...