Fall

Fall is my favorite time of the year for a lot of reasons. I love the temperature, the holidays, and the smell of the fresh, crisp air. It's perfect because it's not too cold out, but you get a nice breeze and the option to wear an over sized sweatshirt everywhere. I am especially excited because I have yet to go to the cider mill this year, and that is my absolute favorite part of the season. The hayride is definitely the best part, it gives me a chance to sit back and do nothing but enjoy life for a few moments. I can't wait to pick out the best pumpkin, and carve it whichever way I want to. I'm also looking forward to getting hot chocolate, and eating as many donuts as my body can handle. Overall, this time of the year puts me in and awesome mood and I love it!

Homesick

I'm starting to get really homesick, but I am also starting to realize how normal this feeling actually is for a college student to feel. Although, realizing that it's normal almost makes things worse because it forces me to notice how real things really are. I no longer live with my parents, and I no longer see my friends from high school daily. Sleeping with my puppy ever night is no longer a thing that I get to do, and home cooked meals only happen when I drive two hours to go back home for the weekend. I am coming to terms with the fact that I'm an adult now, who lives on my own and takes care of my own responsibilities. This is a scary, yet awesome thought. Life got a little bit tougher when I moved away to school, but I've also come a lot closer to reaching my life long goals; so I would say that is was a fair trade.
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Joshua's Letter

Today was a big day for me. A few months back I lost somebody very close to me. Ever since then, I have had a very hard time coping things. For someone as outgoing as I am, I find it very hard to talk to people about my emotions and how things affect when I am going through something that negatively impacts my life. Today, I was asked by my friend's parents to write a letter about how his death has affected me. At first, I was extremely hesitant. I did not feel comfortable with revisiting those emotions, and I definitely did not feel comfortable with sharing those feelings with someone that I do not know. Although I felt this way, I knew that it was for Joshua so I began writing the letter anyway. Shortly into the letter I realized what was really going on. I was writing down every single feeling that I have ever felt towards losing my friend, and for once since he passed I finally started to feel a little bit better about things. I soon realized that I was coming up with a new way of coping with things. After finishing a letter that I thought would be about a page long, I looked back to see a 4 page long masterpiece. I feel a lot more at ease now, and love my new coping method. Overall today has been successful, when I thought it would be tough!

My Thoughts On Last Friday

Class on Friday went a little bit differently and I kind of liked it. We got into small groups rather than just having a discussion among the entire class. I liked this exercise because we actually got to interact with our classmates a little bit and have an actual debate with each other about a specific aspect of the movie Carrie. Although, I didn't really like the movie to be honest. I did however enjoy listening to music and thinking about it in different ways. At the end of the question sheet it asked: "Do you think about this song differently now?" (or something close to that) This was cool because I've heard most of the songs we listened to in class, but I had never really thought about music in that way before. I overall liked that part of class though because who doesn't like listening to music in class?