By Elizabeth Marrant
Growing up in the country is like a fresh breath of air, you need it but once you've taken it in your life gets infinity better. Like air, everyone needs family, someone to take care of or even to take care of you. There is no place to do that better than the country, there you can have both. I've had personal experience with growing up in the country and it is because of growing up where I did that made me the person I am today. Growing up in the country I always had my family not matter what, making those connections made it easy to stay connected to my family even now when we all don't live so close. I am one out of eight children also one of the oldest which meant I had to help with the younger siblings. I didn't mind, doing it actually helped me gain a great relationship with each of my siblings. Living out in the country not only gave me a chance to be with my brothers and sisters, but also my mother and father. I remember helping my father with the animals; horses, cows, chickens, you name it we had it. My father also trained all us kids for track every year whether we liked it or not. We lived on a road called one house road and ironically we were the only house there. Every morning was the same, when it was time to go to the bus for school, my father would make us run all the way to the end of the road and when we got off the bus then we had to run all the way home. The great thing about us running together is we pushed each other to do better and made us feel like a team. Also helping my mother with things around the house, like the children, cleaning, and cooking. My mother relied a lot me, she felt I was the most responsible out of her children so I was given more tasks to do. One thing my mother always made sure we did every Sunday and Wednesday was go to church services. Living in the country made it easy to focus on religion which is exactly what our mother made sure we did. If you ever said anything