So, I have been contemplating and have had the idea for a while to start up a blog as I start a new chapter in my new found "adulthood" life. I'm heading off to college in one week, no parents or siblings, just a best friend, my clothes, shoes, dignity and small town Rexburg, Idaho. Boy...I never thought this day would come but now it's actually starting to sink in and I'm a little nervous! I think that is normal though. It's always been nice to have my parents to rely on when I needed something or had a problem, on the other hand however, I feel I have always been pretty self reliant and I am ready to grasp this new change in life and grab it head on by the horns! I am very anxious to meet new people, explore new places, learn from new classes and see how I will react and handle all these new things. See, when I moved to Utah from Tennessee 3 years ago, I feel it took a huge affect on the person I was. The situation I was then put in was something I had never experienced before in my life. Having to make friends was a huge struggle for me and took a toll on my confidence. I thought that I had always been this fun, outgoing person but then it had me thinking that I only felt that way because I grew up with all the kids I had been friends with. Now that I was in a different situation, the new kid who knew no one and didn't grow up with any of these people, I realized how hard it can be to just be yourself and make friends and not care what people think! This has been my struggle ever since, trying to figure out where I fit and not caring about what other people think. True friends will like you for who you truly are. So as I head off to college this is a goal very prominent in my mind. I want to be care free, I want to be myself and not care because it's college! There is such a selection and variety of people and it's so much more accepting than High School. I want to be the fun, bubbly girl I know I am. I want to start up a conversation with someone without knit picking about every single detail that I said wrong or how I'm such an awkward person. I want to smile!! :) These are my first, every day goals I have as I head off to college and I am so excited to see what happens. I'll be sure to keep you all informed. So long for now!
Always,
Dee
