Lots has happen since my last entry, but I couldn't even begin to pick up where I left off, so I'm not going to try, hah :)
As for updates,
-My first blog was about the "iPhone Battle", well I feel as if I need a refreshment. I may have an addiction to expensive things, my list keeps getting bigger and bigger, more expensive and more expensive. And I am dying for a smart phone. It seems every where I turn someone else is getting a smart phone. DARN THEM :) But I keep telling myself, I don't need it. Maybe one of these days I will believe it.
-Almost a year ago, I started another blog. I only had three entries & they weren't very good. So eventually I never picked it up again. When I created 'Living to Learn' for a creative writing assignment somehow my e-mail connected my old blog to the new one. I really hope I deleted it right, cause it is awful! I bring it up, however, because two of my three entries were about my friend David! He has always been my best friend- well since 6th grade-. We did everything together, talked everyday, saw each other everyday, spent the weekends together. We were truly 2 peas in a pod. Then with a series of complicated, unexplainable, and shocking events- this is the story shortened- we were no longer allowed to communicate. It was a life changing experience. I remember talking about it with the amazing Mrs. Curry. She said to me "It's like you are dealing with a break-up". Those words stuck with me the rest of the year, it really was a break-up. A break-up David & I had no control over. Anyway, not to go on and on about last week's news :).. David turned 18 & we are able to talk again, well not sure if we are able, but we are :). It has been great. We are both starting college, and slowing catching each other up on our senior years.
The other night we skyped for the first time. It was the first time in a year that I heard his voice. Naturally, I expected some awkwardness, it's been a year! But believe it or not, it was as if a year hadn't past. We were talking and laughing like we had just seen each other the other day. When I first opened the skype call, I couldn't see him- the screen was black. I was trying to explain it to him "David, you are ... you're .. black" .. "Really, Cayla? We are starting the conversation off like this" (David is black, hah!). Even though David is miles away in Seattle, I am ecstatic to know that him & I are back. Even though it's not the normal we use to know, even though the chances of me seeing him in person anytime soon is slim to none, I am happy to say my friend is back in my life, and I am back in his.
-Since my last blog, I have gone to EIU to see my other best friend, Ali! That trip in itself deserves a blog! It taught me a lots, besides having a blast visiting her and others. Ali's sister, Bianca, and I went to EIU over Labor Day weekend. We left on Saturday and made four hour trip down to Charleston, IL. Holy Macaroni! I learned two things on that drive; 1. Rt 47 is a VERY long road. 2. IL really does have LOTS and LOTS of corn. Finally after hours in the car, looking at nothing but CORN, we made it to EIU. The three of us girls had a great weekend. We spent one night at U of I with our friend Steph, and then making a trip down to SIUE, to see our friend Luke.
While visiting the three friends, they of course showed off their dorms and campus. I spent one weekend in a dorm, and if I had it my way, that is the only time I will spend in a dorm. I use to think living in dorm would be fun, exciting, something new to decorate. I guess I learned more about myself that weekend. It just isn't as glorified as I played it up in my head to be. I plan on transferring, but not into a dorm, I will find an apartment.
-Since I have started classes, I have had to drop one. Yes, you guessed, I dropped my world religions class. That professor expected a lot, and going to school everyday plus working at nights really left little time for me to put the right amount of work in. And yes, I was a little chicken. But by dropping that class I learned a lot. I learned that I'm not going to try and rush a two year degree into one year. Yes, it can be done, and if I wasn't working so much, I think I could do it. But after going to EIU and experiencing just a sliver of what real college life is like, I know I am not ready to rush things.
Since dropping that class, things have been easy. I was almost waiting for the other shoe to drop. I am in week 6 of college and I am just NOW getting homework. I know people stressing out, hard core, because of the amount of papers and reading. I am just now getting papers and heavy readings assigned and even that isn't too much to ask from me. I really feel that FCS prepared me for the work load college was going to through my way. And I put very little effort into high school, those of you who put your everything into high school, college should not be that stressful, yet. And let me just say this for those of you thinking "it's community college, what do you expect?", FALSE! I talk regularly to the valedictorian of my graduating class, who went on to a university, she too feels it is not that difficult or over whelming. But we both agree, it's only the first semester of freshman year!
-A majority of my friends are away at school now. Ali & Bridgette are at EIU, Steph at U of I, Luke at SUIE, Annie somewhere in Chicago, Kate somewhere in Naperville, Alyssa somewhere in Minnesota but a few are still here at MCC. I have spending lots of time with Sam, Michaela, Rachel, and Nate. The ironic thing about this group of people above is I didn't graduate with them, I haven't known them for years. Yes, some of them I have known since freshman year, but a majority of them I just started hanging out with over junior and senior year. I feel so welcomed into their group, and as corny as it sounds, these are the people I see myself with in ten to twenty years from now! It is beyond annoying that they are off at college and we are all apart, but the great thing about having such an awesome group friends is, you know the minuet they get back into town we are all going to have a great time, as if no time has passed :)
-As of my relationships with people I went to school with, its pretty simple. A few years ago my dad had a school reunion. Him and my uncle (who graduated in the same class) didn't go. When people asked why they responded "The people I want to see, and really care to know what is going on in their lives, I already see. All the others don't matter to me." That really is how it is with me, already- it hasn't even been 6 months. I have made the occasional trips up to FCS, it's easy now because my sister is still there, but really the only people I talk to are the people I see outside of school.
My graduating class does have a Facebook page, and I try to post comments to get us all talking, even if we are miles away. But I think that is as far as it will go, we never got along in high school, what makes us think we will now, it has only been 6 months! :) Last Christmas we did talk about getting together again at Christmas, when we are all home from college. At the time I thought that was crazy, why would I want to see these people after high school. Now, however, I think I may try to organize that. Even if some of us hated each other, or still kind of do, we are a family of some sort. We grew up together through jr. high and high school. An occasional get together will not kill us, plus it's always fun to what Melissa brings for the white elephant game! Who knows, I may try to organize it, and remember why I thought the idea was crazy.
- Overall the first six weeks of college life have been fun and enjoyable. I've learned some things in life and in school, after all, I'm living to learn :)
