College Travellings!

One way or another, it's true in every case: being in College makes you travel! You just somehow end up travelling -- spring break to some exotic country with friends, studying aboard in France, or being sent to a foreign University to visit! It doesn't matter if you grew up with parents or other relatives who always took you to the corners of the world, or when an exciting trip meant a car ride to Wal-Mart, being a college student always makes you travel, and I'm happy to say so.

I was born into a lower middle-class family in Virginia (hillbillies, anybody?) and we were NOT rednecks because we always kept the discarded kitchen appliances and vehicles out front of our houses sparkling clean. So anyway, even though we didn't have all the money and anything that we desired in the world, we got by -- and I was spoiled rotten. Actually, that probably was why we were poor. So all my other classmates would show off about going to some far state and visit their aunt or uncle or grandparents. I never had that opportunity, everyone in my family lived 2 hours away or less, all in the same state. One exception was Mom's cousin, in rural West Virginia. It was a lovely place, but to a little boy, it was boring. No cable -- no captioning for movies, no video games.

When I was in middle and high school, I abhorred hearing about other people's summer or winter breaks. I was jealous about them going to some European country, or Disneyland, or just California. Even VA beach pressed my buttons. I went on a family trip which reached Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina, but I was nine. VA beach was fun, but it still hurt to hear about it from somebody else because they had fun going with their friends and I didn't with my mother and her adult friend.

VSDB has Academic Bowl, and we went to West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Of course, that was still not enough because we went to those places to work and to think and to not have fun. I mean -- it's not like I did NOT have fun, so cool it RJ :)

When I got accepted to Gally, I knew I had to just do something and get out and do something different. I had to be one of the many others who said they did all those awesome things during the summer and some other breaks. So I did. It didn't happen until the second semester, anyway -- most particularly when I stopped spending money on compulsive DVD-shopping. And so now I'm in Minnesota!!

I've been here for two weeks now, and I fly home tomorrow. I'm gonna miss Elisy, whom I've been staying with, but I'll see her again when classes at Gally start up again. RJ dropped me off at the airport two weeks ago -- funny, it doesn't seem that long ago! Mom and Granny are picking me up tomorrow at the airport, so that means a nice dinner out! I've already made plans when I get back :) particularly helping RJ out with her summer cleaning and a platonic date with, oh my, a boy!!

Before I forgot, I went to Ocean City, Maryland, for my 21st birthday. I'll be flying to Arizona for a friend's wedding next month. It's a great feeling finally going out and doing things on my own terms! :) Yay for college!