One way to skin a cat, or introduce an essay

Dan’s Essay 1 introduction draft:
Possible outline:
Reason 1:
The weather.
Reason 2:
The landscape
Reason 3:
The house.
Reason 4:
The job

I am a displaced person. As the years pass and I become more and more used to New England and Vermont, I become less and less displaced. However, I often still feel like a stranger here. The weather is much colder than the weather I left behind in Georgia three years ago. The landscape is much more rustic and wild than the carefully tended neighborhood we lived in outside Atlanta. Our “new” house is more than a century old, and I am finding it more of a challenge than I thought it would be when we moved here. And teaching in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom is far different than teaching in the South.