Week 4... done!

Happy Friday!! I made it through week 4!!! My nite consisted of doing homework and relaxing! After I got a good portion of my homework done, my roomie and I went to go get dinner! We both are slowly hating fast food, you can only eat so many salads, were missing our home cooked meals for sure. Came back to  the dorm room and painted nails and tried to get the U of A game up, but I failed. This week we played the Miners in El Paso, safe to say we WONNNNN!!! Missed cheering on the team in the stands! We are finishing the nite by watching Baywatch, both roomie and I needed a good laugh tonite!

So......

Where to begin... these past four weeks have honestly been crazy, and have been the best and worst moments of my life. Its been an adjustment for sure. Growing up, moving around I haven't always had friends but my family has always been there for me. I may not always act like it but I am truly grateful for my family. They are always there no matter what time or where, I  always have a shoulder to cry on but moving away to college it wasn't going to be the same. I don't have my friends, don't have my best friends, don't have my siblings and don't have my family but I will adapt I always do! Thank god for FaceTime, phone calls, and texting! I could not live without my phone. I FaceTime roughly three times a day, sometimes more; either with my friends or family.

My dad warned me will I will just be a number. The classes are too big for teachers to have a personal one to one connection. All of my classes either have 600, 500 or my smallest 300 pupils. I do feel like just a number but I luckily have at least 1 or more friends in each class! My favorite class is probably my Popular Entertainment class, I sit in the very front and I have a friend who sits with me!! Since we feel like we are the only students who haven't seen the office, we are going to start watching it together. The teacher always makes funny office references and we are lost! My least favorite class is probably the MIS 111 (Management information Systems), this is a pre-req for the business school. The professor is great just the content is hard to grasp, but the ELLER advisor for my dorm says its a class to test peoples ability. He said many will quit business after this course and change their major, so I am determine to excel in this class. I already have a study group for this class and meet 3 times a week for work and many more to hang out! Those girls and I are soooo close its unreal! I love it! They are all so friendly and we are going through some of the same struggles (relationships).

I have always been the person who over books themselves, never says no. But I have had to lean quickly to say no, learn how to manage my time: involving school, friends, family, homework, clubs and social life!!! Its challenging but its not impossible. Monday nites I have Hall Council, not only am I a part of this club but I am the Vice President of Marketing! Tuesday nites I either have Navs (bible study) or Sports Marketing or Association of Marketing (I haven't decided which I'm doing yet). Wednesday nite I have Eller Elite meetings. Thursday nites are my only nites to myself, I normally end up spending 8 hours doing homework, getting caught up or ahead in my classes. Friday nites are either dorm nites or Navs nite!  Keeping myself busy for sure but I'm still staying on top of my classes and school work! Trying to handle everything as well as balance friends, family and social life! My favorite part of the day is walking into my room and seeing my bed, it still is as pretty as it was move in day!

Dorm life is another adjustment. I thankfully have always had the luxury of living in my own room and only having to share a bathroom with one sibling. But now I'm sharing a room half the size of my original room, sharing a closet smaller than the wardrobes in England, sharing a bathroom with 20 other girls, that's a huge adjustment in its self. The girls wing is soooo much cleaner than the guys for sure, you can tell by the smell! Walking down the guys wing, it smells like a locker room. But it sure isn't as bad as I thought it would be. The dorm rooms are bigger than I expected, bathrooms are cleaner, location is prettier, and people are nicer. Living with about 20 other girls you have a lot of diversity, which is amazing. Everyone comes from different backgrounds, different states, and have different personalities. Someone how I have developed such strong relationships with some of the girls! I have so much in common yet we are completely different people.

This year is going to be a year of learning. Figuring out how to handle everything, figuring out who I am and who I want to become. I have a had a good foundation but college will test you!

Lets just say, this week has been the HARDEST week so far, for a variety of reasons. I would need hours to explain everything to you guys. I have called my mommy and best friend (s) hysterically crying for reasons I don't even know how to explain, but I know it will get better. God doesn't give me anything I cant handle. I am truly thankful for all of my friends in my life, you each are so important to me! I have made so many friends down in the dirty T too!!! Many late nite convos, ice cream runs, late nite walks, and many laughs and cries! I learned from a young age that not everything will go according to plan. God puts bumps in the road to try to off set us, steer us down the wrong path but we have to stay strong.

Jeremiah 29:11

¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Miss you and Love u all!!