Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Norman in my eyes

Norman is a little city in Oklahoma. People of Norman seems very happy to me. All they have a very stable life unlike big cities. They don’t have much to achieve or to lose. They are pretty happy with their life. They are doing the same things repetitively and tirelessly. Even they don’t to explore much: at best, Oklahoma City not more than that. This is very common in Oklahoma too. I met one who never went beyond Oklahoma. Norman is very slow. It seems slower than Dhaka to me.

Most of the bread n’ butter of its inhabitants comes from OU. OU is the source of their livelihood. Most of the people are related to OU directly or indirectly. People usually goes to office at 9 am and came back 5 pm. In week end you will see lot of drunken people. They don’t have much room for their entertainment. Few clubs, bars and so on. The most important is Norman will not push to the rat race.

They are pretty habituated with international student. This is because they see lot of international graduate student every year. Lot of international student came here every year to pursue their higher studies. And most important is they like the international students. And they know very well how to deal with them.

Most of the residents are not permanent here. You see lot of young people around here. I guess all are related to OU and come here to stay for limited time.

There is not much place for natural beauty here. But the government tried their best to make it beautiful. Most of the houses and trees are stereotype. You wouldn’t see much variation here.

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