Move In Day!

Today is the day I’ve been waiting for all summer. Today is move in day at my university. I spent all week saying goodbye to friends and packing up the last of my essential belongings. It’s never easy to leave the people you love or the life you’re familiar with.

It was a six hour drive to the college and then another 30 minutes looking for a parking space once we got there. That place was packed! First on the new student check-in list was getting keys and making sure all the necessary paperwork was filled out. Basically, I had to wait in endless lines for what seemed like hours. It all paid off though, when those brassy keys hit my hand for the first time!

I made a mad dash to the dorm where I would be living and it was absolutely swarming with parents and students trying to move what looked like a yard sale into the dorm building. I parked my car, found my room, and met my roommate. She seemed nice, but I still wasn’t sure how we’d get along. After hauling about 5 boxes and a loft bed up three flights of stairs I was ready to take a well deserved rest break.

Unfortunately, the rest of the evening was taken up with orientation activities including a talent show and a scavenger hunt. Even though my team did come in dead last during the scavenger hunt, everyone was very supportive and gave us a nice round of applause when we walked into the gym where the rest of the freshman was waiting.

There have been so many new people and so many new things to see that it’s been a little overwhelming. I’m not sure how I’ll fit into this place, or if I’ll ever be able to call it home. I miss my friends already and I feel like I might as well be a million miles from home. Hopefully my homesickness will start to go away as I settle in.