The Grid

The streets in Rexburg are a grid, much like the streets in many other american cities. There are two center streets perpendicular and other streets that run parallel to those. 1st East, 2nd East, 3rd East and so on. Then west. Then North. Then South. Not all that exciting if you were to look at them from google maps satellite view. But if you look closer, you can see a lot more. They are rough, covered in gravel from the winter just passed. The oil from the tires of students' cars breaking too late and too often. The cars passing by every so often carrying families to Wal Mart or Sammy's. So many different people from so many places. College students, mothers, high-schoolers, children playing, a man walking his dog. I walk alone to class but never feel lonely.