Rabbits, hares and deer!!!!!!
I grew up in suburbia where there were lots of people but you didn’t know any of them. City people can be cold (especially in my city). I felt like I just didn’t matter in the city. I could have just stood in the middle of the road and screamed my head off and no one would have taken any notice. They would have noticed that I was doing it but they would have just kept on doing their own thing. My mum once fell badly when crossing the road in the centre of town and not one single person stopped to help her up. I find that sickening and scary. My dad once fell off his bike on a busy road and people just drove around him. I want to know that if I fall, someone I don’t know will be there to help me up and want to know that I’m okay. It’s like when I was little; I used to think if I ever got lost, there would surely always be someone willing to help me find my mum again. Maybe there wouldn’t have been. I didn’t get lost though as I was always stuck to my mum’s side.
In the countryside, I get the feeling that people can tell I’m not from here. I have an ‘I’ve never got muddy before’ look about me. I love feeling confident that I can go into the little town near here and no one there knows me. People are friendly. When pedestrians want to cross the road (there aren’t any crossings), cars slow down for them. The shop workers here are polite and helpful. People don’t push past you in the street. There’s not so much of a hurry to get anywhere.
It’s funny that people want to live in the busy, crowded towns when they could live somewhere like here where it’s quiet and beautiful. There are all kinds of animals around here that I didn’t even know I had never seen for real before. It’s a very strange feeling when you realise that! A deer looked straight at me for ages the other day, and then ran away. I tried not to show my excitement at that! My dog licks cows’ noses on a daily basis. You just don’t get that in the city!
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