Fresh Start

It's been almost 2 years. That is crazy. I started this blog because I thought it would be cool. WRONG reason to start one. Over the past year or so, I have grown up. A lot. So, this is me vowing to use this space as an outlet for emotions, venting and just for the pure enjoyment of writing (which as it seems I have come to enjoy). A new title and background will suffice for the "fresh start" and I am not going to post regularly, just as I thought I would before. I don't really know where to begin but I think the people I have met and friends I have kept at the beginning of college and through my first year, is a good place to start.

So here it begins...

College...

It has already been a crazy ride and I am sure it will continue.

The cast I consider my "closest friends at college" consist of Rachel, Maggie, Anne, Kayla, Amanda, Jared, Andrew, and oddly enough my RA Amelia. (If you find this blog anyone...I hope you enjoy it because you make my life amazing.)

I still have my high school crew; Ellen, Elyse, Maria, Shannon, Bri, Lindsey, and Jodi, although we are all busy. But we will always be us. Crazy, energetic, weird, not understandable to others... In fact, the last three days describe that list pretty well. We have hung out Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights. (We may have gone to T-Bell all three of those.) Whenever some of us get together, it can get a little crazy...singing and dancing may commence, hair being braided together, and a lot of screaming.... A LOT. We will always be around each other because we are similar. A few of us will be getting a house together junior year and I can not wait to move in with the people that understand me.

The cast at college is another story. And a story it is. After moving into my dorm (SE dynasty!), the entire dorm went on a retreat after one of the first weeks of school. I was hesitant to go because I really hadn't made any friends by that point. I had talked to a few of the girls on my floor but not on a personal level. Not until the River Tooth walks. We were grouped into two people. The sophomores were told to choose a freshman and who picked me? None other than Rachel. So that is where it began. A walk around a camp, both sharing our sob stories from high school about switching friends and broken relationships. She understood me because she went through the same thing. I will never forget that night. And so, we traveled back to campus and we hung out more and more. Rachel introduced me to some of her dance friends, and others that she had met freshman year. Yes, I don't have many freshman friends because of this but age doesn't matter. So first semester was through and interim had begun. I think I met Jared for the first time while Rachel and I were picking up a fellow floor mate from the airport just before first semester had ended. He was awesome and musical. The type of person I mesh well with. Andrew, his roommate and basically the same person as Jared was, was in my Interim class but we had not met each other before. Soon enough Jared and Rachel began dating and the four of us hung out a lot. It felt so nice to be included in things (because the first three years of high school sucked.) We had our moment of immaturity, fights and falling outs but I know in my heart that God put them in my life to make it better (maybe not right away), to change me (into what I want to be), and to help me learn (what I want to do in my life). If you guys are reading this, Thank you.

Our story will continue, with Rachel, Kayla, Anne and Amanda moving into a house together, Maggie going to Ghana, and Jared, Andrew and I (all as sophomores) still on campus in the dorms (I am moving from 3rd floor to 1st floor). It is going to be hard because the girls won't be right down the hall from me, but I have hope; that we will all still be the messed up, wacky, insane, happy family that we all love to be.

So those are the people that are in my life. Summer is here and most of them live out of state (it is really sad), so I am only able to talk to them through texting, Facebook chat and Google+ hangouts. I am planning some visits to some of them, but God might have me going in a different direction, which I will save for another post.