Excel, Alabama

I have not lived in Montgomery all my life. Actually, I have not lived in one certain town all my life. However, I have most recently lived in a small, dot-on-the-map town called Excel since 2004. Excel is NOTHING like Montgomery. The school in Excel is K-12 with 1,000 students. I graduated with fifty people in my senior class. Whereas in Montgomery, schools have way over 1,000 people, and senior classes have 300 students. Excel has more cows than people. It is a huge farm, country town. FFA (Future Farmers of America) is pretty much the BIGGEST club at school. Football is pretty big, but baseball is even bigger. We have these things called P-Nut Boils as pep-rallies for some of our games. The town consists of: a gas station, a post office, a little rinky-dink store, a tiny little diner, and a school. If you wanted to go somewhere to get real groceries, you had to drive about 15 minutes to WalMart. The closest mall is about two hours away from Excel. Really the closest anything is two hours away. When I moved up here to Montgomery, I was in culture shock. There is a mall 5 minutes away. To me there is so much to do! The town is SO big. I went from little country town to this big city over night! It amazed me to see all the differences. Really, it just amazed me to see all of the people. I have never been around so many different people. I was used to seeing the same people EVERY SINGLE day! Now, I only see the same people in my classes. I do not see the same people walking around campus every. There is no other comparison. Excel and Montgomery are COMPLETE opposites of each other.