Ashley Hutson

By Lydia Bellows

Ashley Hutson, SFA junior, moved from Eureka, California to small town Pittsburg Texas.

She moved from California to Texas because her family decided to live closer to her relatives. Ashley was starting her junior year in her high school in California and she had to make new friends and adapt to a whole different country.

First thing that Ashley noticed was the accent and how differently way people talk from California. She said “People drop the g’s off of everything, that I noticed…”. She also said that there is a lot of words that she didn’t know the meaning of, such as: fixen and winded. “I remember having to ask someone what did fixen mean…and what winded meant.” Ashley recalls being very confused after talking to people and having to figure out what they were trying to say. “I remember thinking that people have bad grammar here… they don’t finish all of their letters”.

Ashley described how in Eureka she could walk to the beach within five minutes and how local redwood trees surrounded her. She misses the smell of the ocean and all of the local coffee shops that were available to her almost an every corner in Eureka. She said that the closest body of water in Pittsburgh, Texas is a man-made lake, which was quite a long drive from the city. The main attraction in Pittsburg, Texas is the home factory of Pilgrim’s Pride, which is a well-known chicken factory. Her hometown is now surrounded by lots of land and ranches and livestock that would have been completely foreign to her in California. She still misses California and looks for any opportunity to revisit her old town in Eureka.