College Memory

Yesterday I was digging around in my memory banks to recall the first time I heard about the little town of Waterville. I finally remembered that it was in 2001 or 2002, my final year at Central Washington University. I was browsing the internet, searching for music teaching jobs, and at that time the only opening listed in the state of Washington was a K-12 position in Waterville, WA.

Of course, I had never heard of the place so I asked around and managed to find three or four people who were "familiar" with Waterville. They informed me that it was a tiny town in the middle of nowhere and all of them said, in a nutshell, "Trust me, you do NOT want to live there." I took their advice and continued my job search elsewhere.

It wasn't very long before my dream job found me! I was hired by the Wenatchee School District in 2002 and I made my home in Wenatchee.

Four years later, Adam and I moved out to that "town in the middle of nowhere" which turned out to be closer to "somewhere" than we thought!