I know I'm going to feel out-of-place?

[eadweald71]

I grew up in a small town in Washington's Olympic Peninsula, wearing clothes that wear bought at the local thrift store. My parents never made much money and we lived in a trailer park on the outskirts of town. We owned one car that was ultimately a worth-less piece of trash. I attended the towns only elementary school, when my three older brothers attended the middle school.
I was another small town girl whose life was destined from the start to be...unfulfilling.
But one day, my parents both applied for jobs as international attorneys working out of a high-ranking law firm in Los Angeles California.
We left Washington within a few months and my parents starting working their new jobs. Suddenly we had more money then we could count and we were living the high life. Driving fast cars, living in gated community high atop a hill over looking the city and partaking in the life of the rich and famous.

All of my brothers attended a Christian High School in Pasadena, where I currently go to school and they all graduated. They now go to ivy leauge schools on tution that my dad payed for without thinking about. He did the same for my school tution, and for my brothers.
Now that my brothers are away at their colleges, and my parents have their jobs to worry about, I'm all alone.

So this summer, my parents are sending me to live with my Aunt and Uncle. I didnt want to go, but I'm going anyway because I know my parents have too much to worry about.
I haven't been home in over ten years and going back all the sudden, I know I'll be out of place. In my designer clothes and my designer luggage in hand, I'll stick out like a sore thumb. I just want to fit in.

I don't want to be out of place in my own home town, but I know that discarding the new life my parents have given me will disappoint them.

What do I do?

[siwili]

Sounds like a movie :)

Don't worry! I'm sure you will not "stick out like a sore thumb". If you really are that worried, why don't you just bring clothes that don't scream "RICH KID OVER HERE" lol. I don't mean that you can't wear designer clothing, but don't bring too much stuff with brand names splashed all over it.

As long as you don't act like a spoiled princess you will be fine :)