Summer is ending and it’s making my head spin. I just finished an eight-week job working at a day camp, and I absolutely loved it. But those two months seemed to have disappeared into summer oblivion. “Summer Oblivion” should be the new catch phrase, I think. It’s where all summer days go between school years. Suddenly, you wake up and there it is, you’re back in school for another nine months of… well… school.

Is there anything wrong with school? No. It’s just that the off-time (i.e., summer) feels like breathing fresh air after you’ve been walking through the over-polluted streets of L.A. Or something like that. And I’m mentally preparing myself to leave again, back to Indiana (which, of course, means leaving Hawai`i), back to the Midwest where I have no hope of seeing the ocean (or a mountain, actually) for another three months until Christmas.

I always wonder at the people who say they’re homesick when their home is just a drive away. Whereas, I have to catch (at the very least) three planes to get to my college, then I have to bum a ride off one of my friends (or pay a taxi driver), and then I’m stuck. Stuck in a dorm room. Thank goodness I have friends in college. If I didn’t, it would be almost unbearable.

Sometimes I wish I could just stay here, at home, and not go back to college. But that, as they say, would be impossible. I know that I need to grow away from my family, from my home. But when you trade in nice breezes and family warmth for flat plains and a shower you have to wear slippers (i.e., flip-flops) in, it makes you wonder. Thank God for friends, right?

Posted on August 10th, 2007 by Joy
Filed under: College, Uncategorized