<p>chiyoske - okayy. i’ll try to split it up into specific categories. tell me if i miss anything you specifically want to know about</p>
<p>weather: for a girl, it blows. it’s humid most of the time so it causes frizzy hair, especially if you straighten it. summer is very hot. 100 degrees is the norm. right after summer (or at the end), it’s hurricane season. it rains like crazy. i don’t know if you heard about hurricane ike last year. huge evacuation. houston, however, especially by rice, did not get hit that bad. storms occur often. fall temperatures fall down to 80s. it gets a little bit better. winter goes to 40 at the lowest! normally it’s low 60s-85, 85 usually the max. houstonians are not used to the cold btw. you’ll see scarfs in 60 degree weather. spring warms up quickly, going back up to about 80 and then summer hits. winter, the beginning of spring, and the end of fall are the best times for weather. lately, it’s been really nice.</p>
<p>people: typically nice. if you ask for directions, you’ll get them. we are hard headed and stubborn. our driving, well you know how to drive in houston or you don’t. our highway system is insane! we have feeder roads. and call our “round a bouts” u-turns. at least that’s what i’ve heard northerns call it. not too sure. we say y’all. we are NOT COUNTRY. we are very modernized. y’all is probably our biggest slip. </p>
<p>transportation: metro buses go everywhere but take forever. take mace. taxi’s = out of state. we hardly see them. stare when we do (no joke). trains, i don’t know. never been on one actually. i know we have a train system thought. we have two airports. hobby is smaller. both are awesome. </p>
<p>stuff to do: many clubs/bars/huge nightlife. just go on westheimer. it’s all there. we’re not really a dull place. museums are really nice. we have one of the best of one type. forgot which. the art museum = love. at least for me. the science one is pretty cool. but we have a museum district. i mean, it’s all here! lol. everything is close by, for the most part, despite the size. malls are really big. we have more than 3 big ones - galleria, memorial, greenspoint (? not sure. it’s farther than where i live)</p>
<p>downtown: amazing skyline. it’s really nice to walk around. the meanest people will be over there though. they are all the business type who have places to go things to do.</p>
<p>uptown: rich. sometimes snobby. but VERY NICE. if you visit, you have to see the river oaks neighborhood. it’s where the millionaires live. </p>
<p>other places: the heights are very historical. lots of history there but it’s slowly being renovated and updated. the shops there are very… uh. like liberal i guess. they’re out there. really cool clues though. it’s like random boutiques. ANY OF THE WARDS = GHETTO. stay out of there. we do have gangs. they live there. back off. there was a warning out one time that basically said one gang was doing their initiation and they were ramming cars in the back. you would get out of your car to exchange info and they’d shoot you. i don’t know how this compares to other places though. the violence is pretty bad in some parts. matters where you go.</p>
<p>ethnicity: mainly hispanics. they cross over the border easily. (not racist) then whites and blacks. few asians except in their corner of houston - the bellaire area. </p>
<p>food: good and cheap once you figure out where to go. you can get really crappy food for really expensive if you don’t beware. but like in bellaire, there is this $5 all you can eat chinese food buffet and it’s amazing!</p>
<p>other places to travel: we have lots of major cities that are easy to get to like san antonio, dallas, austin, galveston (although it still might be torn up from the last hurricane). we have a lot of schools in texas. they all party. and usually together. school spirit is apparent in mainly all schools, so even going to a university of houston football game is fun even if you don’t go there.</p>
<p>random: really bad pollution. pretty parks. we usually always have breast cancer walks. very involved in local things - govt and community - for the most part. fast food shops around every corner, next to a starbucks = lots of obesity. let me put it this way. you know how LA people are skinny? they have gyms on every corner. we aren’t. Mickey D’s is on every corner. this is a generalized statement, i know. i’m not obese or even overweight, but it is much more common here than in other places. i think we’re in the top ten? </p>
<p>i wrote this in a hurry because i’m behind in stats, but that’s all i can think of. anything you want me expand on or say that i haven’t covered?</p>
), I am really interested in all the music around Houston (Orchestra, Musicals, Theater, doesn’t matter