"Class, meet new Amy Teacher"

"Hello, Amy Teacher!" they all say in unison as I am always introduced to a new class. As the students are starting to recognize me in the hallways and classrooms of school they are also calling out to me across parking lots and from street corners in town"Hello,  Amy Teacher!" It is not just students who have this response to my blonde hair and volumptous frame which immediately identify me as American, the community too. The coffee clerk, the grocery store attendant, the old man smoking tabacco on the corner will all stop what there doing and call out "Hello, nice to meet you!" It is quite endearing really. But I am aware now that I am no longer an anonymous face in the crowd. In this place, where ever I go and whatever I do people know immediately I aint from around here.