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Hello children. College is getting better by the day. I'm still homesick and that's a guarantee. It was interesting, I was talking to this guy here and we were talking about how we were both homesick because we are both so ridiculously close to our families and we were watching this random 1930's movie in our film seminar and it said "People who have never been away cannot know homesickness. They simply do not understand the pain of nostalgia." I loved that because it is so true. I'm very nostalgic here. Sometimes I would get weepy seeing like a commercial that my mom and I always laughed at, or parts in movies that Pat and I would quote incessantly. But it's getting better. I love my roommate...she's on the field hockey team so she has a group of friends with them, and some girls she knew from home. So do I, so it works. We both realize we don't have to try to be best friends, but we are totally cool with living with each other and having a good time.
Now here's the part that will be open for debate. A) Bridgewater is extremely strict about drinking and anything like that. If you are caught even once, you get handcuffed and brought to the station. Not so much the pleasant phone call I'd like to leave my parents with one night. Any partying you want to do you have to go off campus. a) I don't know upperclassmen. b) I don't have transportation to get there. And C) (The biggest one) I really don't feel like partying here. I liked it if I had some drinks or whatever with like Karina, or my brother and his friends. I know that college is typically to party or whatever but when I think about it, when I reeallly reallly get down to the core of it, I'm here for ONE purpose. I have wanted to be a teacher since I was 5 years old. It was the one thing I always came back to and in such a large sense, it is, my must. Eventually I know I will drink and party but I have to keep reminding myself why I'm here. If you know me at all, aside from crazy kimmay and crazy kimmay's crazy antics, what i want is a husband that i am in love with just as much as he is with me, a family, the house with the fence and big yard, the teaching job at the page, living within 20 minute of my family, and growing old knowing that i have lived a content life being with and doing what i love. i love that i know that. granted i can't know what will happen in this life, but for the next five years, i have a say on who i am and what i do. im here to learn so i can let this new part of my life, my dream, begin. ahhh felt good to get out.
classes here are really amazing. sooo much better than high school. Teachers are just amazing for the most part. They just CARE about what they do. it's THEIR passion so it's good to have teachers like that. Makes me want to put more effort in. I had a class today, my first year seminar and it's called "whats film got to do with it? - race and gender issues in film/television" This class is TWO HOURS AND FORTY MINUTES. i thought i was going to die. but all we do each class (its only on thursdays) is watch a movie from a different time period and take notes in a journal. then we just write a 1-2 page summary, and show up to class. no final exam, just a project. it's amazing.
OHHH and i started work today! I got a job in the children's center working there 3 or 4 times a week. omg i loooooved it! I got there and was just totally reassured that I'm meant to work with kids. I'm so happy when I'm with them and it goes by so fast. I got RECESS! Like I got to take the kids out and play with them on the slides and in a sandbox. Like hi, I will be 19 this year and I'm loving recess all over again. I got to hear stories being read and I got to read to small groups. It was just absolute heaven. Such a good refresher during long days!! Sooo I've been trying to keep myself busy here. They've had lots of activities each night and stuff, so I've been going to those. Tonight though, nap nap nap and repeats of grey's anatomy for two solid hours. my parents are coming here sunday and I'm soo excited! I can't wait to see them! OH And guys...as soon as you find out what the fall play is, i want to know! keep me updated on advanced acting and just high school in general. i don't like being out of the loop! loooooove you all! :)
Now here's the part that will be open for debate. A) Bridgewater is extremely strict about drinking and anything like that. If you are caught even once, you get handcuffed and brought to the station. Not so much the pleasant phone call I'd like to leave my parents with one night. Any partying you want to do you have to go off campus. a) I don't know upperclassmen. b) I don't have transportation to get there. And C) (The biggest one) I really don't feel like partying here. I liked it if I had some drinks or whatever with like Karina, or my brother and his friends. I know that college is typically to party or whatever but when I think about it, when I reeallly reallly get down to the core of it, I'm here for ONE purpose. I have wanted to be a teacher since I was 5 years old. It was the one thing I always came back to and in such a large sense, it is, my must. Eventually I know I will drink and party but I have to keep reminding myself why I'm here. If you know me at all, aside from crazy kimmay and crazy kimmay's crazy antics, what i want is a husband that i am in love with just as much as he is with me, a family, the house with the fence and big yard, the teaching job at the page, living within 20 minute of my family, and growing old knowing that i have lived a content life being with and doing what i love. i love that i know that. granted i can't know what will happen in this life, but for the next five years, i have a say on who i am and what i do. im here to learn so i can let this new part of my life, my dream, begin. ahhh felt good to get out.
classes here are really amazing. sooo much better than high school. Teachers are just amazing for the most part. They just CARE about what they do. it's THEIR passion so it's good to have teachers like that. Makes me want to put more effort in. I had a class today, my first year seminar and it's called "whats film got to do with it? - race and gender issues in film/television" This class is TWO HOURS AND FORTY MINUTES. i thought i was going to die. but all we do each class (its only on thursdays) is watch a movie from a different time period and take notes in a journal. then we just write a 1-2 page summary, and show up to class. no final exam, just a project. it's amazing.
OHHH and i started work today! I got a job in the children's center working there 3 or 4 times a week. omg i loooooved it! I got there and was just totally reassured that I'm meant to work with kids. I'm so happy when I'm with them and it goes by so fast. I got RECESS! Like I got to take the kids out and play with them on the slides and in a sandbox. Like hi, I will be 19 this year and I'm loving recess all over again. I got to hear stories being read and I got to read to small groups. It was just absolute heaven. Such a good refresher during long days!! Sooo I've been trying to keep myself busy here. They've had lots of activities each night and stuff, so I've been going to those. Tonight though, nap nap nap and repeats of grey's anatomy for two solid hours. my parents are coming here sunday and I'm soo excited! I can't wait to see them! OH And guys...as soon as you find out what the fall play is, i want to know! keep me updated on advanced acting and just high school in general. i don't like being out of the loop! loooooove you all! :)