FALL BREAK!!!

So as for most people this 5 days fall break from school consisted of traveling back home to see their family that they haven’t seen in awhile. For me it was just another 10 minutes drive to my house to find my parents in Italy. So this break I just had a lot of alone time to myself and some old friends that I had not seen in awhile. So after football practice Thursday morning I headed home for a nice long nap in my big comfortable bed. That night I went out to eat with my grandma and great aunt that are staying at my house babysitting my dog. Friday morning I got up did some homework and did some chores that I had to get done before my dad got home. When I got done cleaning the garage, bringing in the patio furniture and giving the dog a bath, I decided to meet up with my friend Joe Piscottia for some lunch down The Cigar Box. That night I decided to drive to a casino in Oklahoma and gamble with a few friends. Five hours later and up $300 I choose to stop and talk my friends in to going home and going to bed. Saturday afternoon I woke up got some lunch with my sister and got my car cleaned to kill sometime before a big night. That night I went to my cousin bachelor party, in which we went all around Missouri having a good time. Finally I woke up this morning to my grandma cooking meatballs and pasta for our Sunday get together. Then I watched football till around 5 o’clock till I had to leave and come back to school to attend a football meeting. Now I am finishing up blogs and dreading the start-up of school again tomorrow. Why can’t weekends just never end?

Freshman Year 101:

An article written by Dave Berry on Collegeconfidential.com discusses how first year college experience is unlike any other experience you will encounter in your life. Dave talks about how this is a time full of anxiety, anticipation and memorial discoveries. As most kids experience the drastic change of moving away from home, it is said that it will have the most impact of kid’s impression on college. The workload is known to double and even triple from high school and you have to be ready for it or you can get behind really easy. It is said though that the best part of your freshman year is the people you will meet and how you will become close with major of these people for the rest of your life.

I agree with this article because it is everything I have been going through and pretty much summarizes my freshman year experience so far. Now I feel the workload isn’t as bad as everyone said it would be just because my high school did such a great job at preparing me for this moment. Now meeting people has been a little harder for me too because I am the kind of person that only wants to be around honest, fun, and real type of people. Finally for the long endless night doing homework and partying I don’t get to experience because of football and because I just choose not to, but besides that my college experience has been enjoyable and interesting so far.

The eyes of another student

So over the past couple weeks I have been interviewing my friend Thomas Clanton on his perspective of William Jewell and the change he went through moving here from San Diego, California. Thomas told me he liked it here a lot, but there were definitely some major adjustments he had to make. The first thing he had to adapt to was the weather and how humid it is here compared to back home. He also said that it was strange not knowing anyone and having to meeting all new friends to hang out with for the next few years. Besides that he said, “The rest is all easy”. By that he meant that the rest is just part of life and you have to adapt to new things and explore a little. The main thing Thomas has trouble with is just being so far away from home and while some kids like me and can be home in 10 minutes to a hour, he can’t. Although Thomas won’t be able to see his family until Christmas he says he likes the freedom from his parents and is glad he is getting to see new parts of the country.

My reaction to this was that he was right and that you just got to adapt to these things and open your mind up to new things. The only thing I can’t really relate with is the distance from home and the freedom. See my freedom here is pretty good, but I mean my parents are still right down the street and can manage everything I do, not allowing me to make my own decisions. Oh well though for now I am just going to enjoy my time here at William Jewell and make the best I can of it.

Sundays

For the last couple years I have fell in love with Sundays. I mean it’s the day we get to honor the Sabbath and relax, what's better than that? Every Sunday morning I wake up from a long night out with friends to the smell of meatballs and eggs. Majority of the time my whole family is upstairs talking loud as all Italians do, screaming for me to get up. So this is my cue to get up take a shower and get ready for church. Then we go to church and thank God for everything he has done for us. Afterwards, (my favorite time) we go home get comfortable and watch all 16 games of NFL football on DIRECTV, while stuffing our faces with meatballs and loafs of Italian bread. Sometimes I will take a nap or play outside with my little cousins till it is time for them to leave. Usually after that I would go do my homework and go to sleep, but lately I have had football on these days cutting not only into my family time but into my relaxing time and watching football. This year the NFL season is suppose to be really good I mean from what I have seen every game is close and there is no longer one really bad team. A lot of teams are either really young or really old; making the rivalry’s better and better. I can’t wait till the day comes that I can start enjoying my Sundays again.

Home, but yet Away.

Home, but yet Away.

Well since I only live about ten minutes away from campus I have been visiting home quite frequently, and every time I walk into my house I am anxious to see what has changed, but nothing has. Everything is the exact same it’s like coming home from a vacation to find your whole house calm and untouched. Everyone is doing the same stuff too, my friends are still talking about things, and of course my parents are still working. I am not real sure what I expect to change or what I’m hoping might change, I just want to get out of my comfort zone and experience some real change. For the past few months while I have lived on campus I haven’t found much change affect me, it’s like I was one of the only students that didn’t undergo the drastic change that most college students go through. This really makes me wonder would I even like the big change or should I just stick with what I got?

See when I’m at Jewell, I feel like the rest of the world stops and Jewell becomes a world of its own for college students. I guess that’s why I am so amazed to see nothing has changed back home. I mean sometimes is feels like my life before Jewell died in the sense that it was just past memory that has been forgotten. These memories I use to have and remorse for hours with friends, just died and everyone is off doing their own thing now. So in a sense I guess it’s time for me to move on, it just is weird being home but yet away at the same time.