Second Peer Review (Lauren Pais)

After reading Lauren’s chapter two reflection post about folk groups, I immediately thought of my two best friends. When I was in the forth grade I moved to a new school and was lucky enough to sit by Heidi. I remember so vividly her crazy brown hair, and big glasses (this was the mid 80’s). We were friends from the start. She had a sister who was a year older than us, Carly. We instantly became the three amigos, if you saw one the other two were not far behind. In a past post I wrote about a tree house I built with my two friends, these are those same two friends. We did everything together. In the 6th grade they moved to a nearby town, and had to transfer schools. As tragic as we thought it was at the time, it did not detour our friendship, but only allowed it to flourish. They moved into the country which was a playground for us for many years; fields, creeks, farm animals, and a scary basement. Our parents would alternate driving us back and forth.

The land we used to play on as children, hiking through the woods, has been semi-cleared for over seven years now and both sisters are married and built houses right where we used to play. Lauren’s post brought back memories of my two friends, who were also sisters. We stayed very close through my moves with the military by visits and many phone calls. Now, I am back in the U.S. and as close as ever, which is great! Heidi and I both have children and it is so fun to watch our kids play together in the same creek we used to play in and run around the same trees and grassy areas. The tree house is off limits for now, due to bad construction (us) + time = shoddy tree house. I too think of us as a folk group.

This is my second peer review posting.