Kelvin recently forwarded me this funny buzz-feed: 38 Things Minnesotans Are Too Nice to Brag About.
I often don't really feel that I have a "home state." However, while I went to HS and college in Virginia and have spent the last 6 years in California, I would probably call Minnesota as "home a state" as I have. I fondly remember most summers of my childhood which were spent in MN where almost all of my Dad's family still resides, and I spent a very memorable, cold four years of med school there in Rochester, too (yeah, No. 24 [The Mayo Clinic]!).
It's easy to poke fun at the Minnesotan accents like in "Fargo," [which is actually in North Dakota, where I have other relatives, but close to the border]. However, as you can see by the article, Minnesotans have a lot to be proud of!
They are some of the nicest people you will ever meet (so nice, in fact, that in medical school we termed the polite response [which was really NO!] to "Do you want to do..... x, y, or z?" the "Mayo-maybe." I love my MN buddies and family!
Pardon some of the language/images in the pictures; however, I still found this post amusing, and it made me a bit nostalgic. Lucky Charms really was the cereal of my Minnesota-summer-childhood.
I also love the (No. 16) tater-tot casserole (or HOT DISH), but where's the "jello salad" in this list? (MN is notorious for anything, even without fruits/veggies, being labeled a "salad").
Did you learn something new about the Land of 10,000 Lakes?
I often don't really feel that I have a "home state." However, while I went to HS and college in Virginia and have spent the last 6 years in California, I would probably call Minnesota as "home a state" as I have. I fondly remember most summers of my childhood which were spent in MN where almost all of my Dad's family still resides, and I spent a very memorable, cold four years of med school there in Rochester, too (yeah, No. 24 [The Mayo Clinic]!).
It's easy to poke fun at the Minnesotan accents like in "Fargo," [which is actually in North Dakota, where I have other relatives, but close to the border]. However, as you can see by the article, Minnesotans have a lot to be proud of!
They are some of the nicest people you will ever meet (so nice, in fact, that in medical school we termed the polite response [which was really NO!] to "Do you want to do..... x, y, or z?" the "Mayo-maybe." I love my MN buddies and family!
Pardon some of the language/images in the pictures; however, I still found this post amusing, and it made me a bit nostalgic. Lucky Charms really was the cereal of my Minnesota-summer-childhood.
I also love the (No. 16) tater-tot casserole (or HOT DISH), but where's the "jello salad" in this list? (MN is notorious for anything, even without fruits/veggies, being labeled a "salad").
Did you learn something new about the Land of 10,000 Lakes?
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