Blog 4: Being away from home

I label this number four because I wanted to keep up with everybody else since I missed last weeks blog; and for that, I apologize. I've been thinking about being away from home lately.

College is supposed to be a great time in a person's life, if they choose to attend, of course. Most kids want to "let loose", so to speak, and get away from the home life for a while. I was thinking that before I came here. I just wanted to get out and be on my own. I have found that to be hard as of right now. I hate being so far away from home. I'm five hours away from family and friends that I grew up with and lived around all my life. I'm making good grades right now but I am not enjoying myself as much. I thought I would be having the time of my life but instead, it's almost dreadful right now.

I've made friends that I really enjoy, but I miss my old friends too and being able to hang out all the time. Now it's hard to even hang out with my new friends because of all my classes and football. Even when I have a little spare time, I need to be studying. But I guess that's just a part of college wherever you go. I guess I never really planned on moving so far away from home and if I was going to, it was going to be fine and dandy anyway because I wouldn't have minded being far away from my family and friends. I'm here to tell you that right now it's not that great and I wish I was somewhere just a little bit closer. Not so close that home is 15 minutes away, but somewhere where I could come home on the weekends and not have to leave so early on a Sunday because it's such a long drive back.

This is just something I've been thinking about a lot lately. I don't know if you will necessarily enjoy reading it, but hopefully you will understand on where I'm coming from and who knows, you may relate to it.

Thanks,

TJ