导语 Janice Sigrist老师是一名资深教育人，曾在美国和中国的多所国际幼儿园担任园长和创始人。在上海生活生活21年的她，于今年7月回美定居。一妍邀请Janice开设一个英文学习专栏，通过Janice的日常故事，激发大家学习英文的兴趣，提升口语能力。
文丨周一妍
编辑｜第1整理术编辑部
本专栏适合人群：
1）所有英文学习爱好者。
2）希望接受更多沉浸式英语教学体验的爸爸妈妈和小朋友。
3）希望将来为国际家庭、双语家庭提供上门整理服务的职业整理收纳师。
这是Janice的第三个免费小故事分享。Janice讲述了前往祖父母原本居住的城市Wyoming周的Rawlins。在3天2夜的旅行中，她拜访了她的表亲和老友们。她发现这座只有不到10000人的小镇，有着一群懂得享受生活的人。他们懂得彻底放松，也努力修建城市，获得和自然和谐相处的美好生命体验。
第一个故事：跟Janice学英文｜我在美国和哥哥一起种黄瓜
第二个故事：跟Janice学英文｜云游览我家的美式花园吧！
第1整理术YiOrganizer招募第一个英文学习粉丝群（同时也是Janice粉丝群）。大家可以在群里向Janice建议下一期的故事话题，包括国际教育、美国日常生活，或是任何有关美好生活的问题，统统欢迎。
入群方式：
1 转发一个Janice的故事到朋友圈。
2 添加小助手“苹果老师”微信号（ID：msapple004），截屏入群。加好友暗号：Janice。
3 如果您之前添加过第1整理术YiOrganizer其他小助手，可以直接将转发截屏发给她，不用再次添加“苹果老师”。
建群时间：8月17日。（双休日和周一暂时不建群，请各位耐心等待）
群讨论主题：聆听Janice小故事的心得，建议，以及其他希望Janice讲故事的话题方向。拒绝其他话题闲聊。建议尽可能使用英文交流。
苹果老师微信二维码
Hello. I am Miss Janice, an educator and lover of life! I enjoyed my 21 years in China, and am back in the US now sharing my US experiences with you.My mother grew up on a ranch in Gillette, Wyoming. My grandparents moved to Wyoming in the early 1900’s, where they became ranchers. My Grandfather took a train out to Wyoming with his family, and my Grandmother went out west in a covered wagon with her family.We spent all of our summers out visiting my mother’s family when I was growing up. It was a perfect, idyllic childhood!This past week I went to visit my cousin, Patty Ann, in Rawlins, Wyoming. She is one of my dearest friends, and she came to help teach in Shanghai for my first year at Rainbow Bridge International School, when we were in need of an excellent teacher. When we are together we laugh a lot, which means that I had lots of fun!We visited the county fair, local businesses, toured the city, went house hunting, went to have lunch in nearby Sarasota, drove through an oil town, Sinclair, and met with many of her friends. I was there for just over 3 days. It was so enjoyable, and so relaxing.Wyoming is known as the Cowboy state. There are cattle, horses, and sheep. Rawlins was founded in 1869. The continental divide runs through Rawlins. It starts in Alaska, runs through Canada, down through the US, through Mexico, all the way down to the Andes Mountains in South America! People hike along this trail, and often stop in Rawlins.Rawlins, Wyoming, is a very small town as far as population is concerned, and it is 8.24 square miles big, which is around 21.2 square kilometers. Around the same size as Macau. The difference is that Macau has a population of around 660,000 people and Rawlins has a population of less than 10,000 people. That’s it—less than yi wan!!!!!! Wow!This is small town America, and I love it! It is surrounded by the Red Desert and the San Padre Mountain Range. It has low humidity, around 15%. It is very windy. It gets snow between the middle of November and the end of May each year, with an average of 41.5 inches, or 105 cm of snow each year! During that time it is very, very cold!The people in Rawlins are are hard working, and they speak their minds. They also enjoy their lives. On the weekends they tend to be a recreational community—they go camping, fishing, horse back riding, exploring, boating, cycling, snowmobiling, and more. On Saturdays the downtown is very empty!The city is completing a beautiful renovation project to its downtown businesses, trying to bring back some of the original charm of the city. I took pictures of the downtown at around 10:00 am last Saturday morning. You can see that the businesses are just two stories high, and that they are quite charming. You can also see that the town was quite empty! There is a tribute to the original Railway station, and to the sheep. There is a small very cool museum hidden underneath the railroad crossing, for the trekkers who hike the continental divide. The downtown now has murals on many of its buildings, painted by local artists. During the winter the downtown park is turned into an ice skating rink for the community.The State penitentiary is also in Rawlins; it is the building that is over 3 stories tall, and is a big employer in the area.In some of the pictures you can see the deer roam the streets.. There is a picture of a mother deer and her three baby fawns, and In another picture you can see two bucks, the male deer, with their beautiful horns, which are c antlers, resting in the downtown park.Saratoga has a renovated downtown, and natural hot springs, that have been a draw to the area for years. We used to go there each summer when I was growing up to enjoy the hot pools and therapeutic waters.Small town America is truly beautiful. The drive from Boise, Idaho to Rawlins took just 9 hours.I wish you all a wonderful week, and look forward to meeting with you again soon. You are very welcome to share my adventures!!!!
