Here I am!

Being back at Uni has been . . . well, for lack of a better word: interesting. It's a lot to re-adjust to.

It's time to be lonely for missing my friends, both back at home and back in England which to me now feels almost the same. I miss England. I miss the classes and my friends and the lifestyle.

But this is me we're talking about so's I'm trying to swing back to my old life while trying to make it new and not bore people with talk of England. It's just, as I've changed, so has everyone else. I'm playing constant catch up trying to figure out what everyone was doing this last school year and catching up with the happenings of their lives. I haven't found it all that easy to slip back into all of my groups of friends. But don't get me wrong, some of them it feels like I've never left at all.

I'm experiencing the overwhelming feeling of homework. There's sooo much of it, or so it seems, at Western. Little assignments that add up and make life difficult. It makes me reminisce about classes in England, which ones I liked and which ones I didn't. I've also discovered that the Gen. Ed's that I used to find an interesting distraction are now boring and in the way of my studying of English Lit. (and World lit. and well just Lit in general). I also miss my creative writing classes that I had in England. The structure and content were so much better, the environment more helpful, and even though I was a "stranger" to everyone, I felt accepted and everyone knew me.

I've returned to a "senior class" who doesn't know most of the people in their Major, let alone their class. It's a depressing thought that we aren't as social within our majors as my friends in England are.

Which brings me to another point, nights out. Just. Not. The. Same. That's all I'm going to say. Not that they don't have their moments of fun, but they just aren't the same.

Well, now that this is a thouroughly depressing blog, I think I'll maybe go in another direction.

Yesterday was Mom's Weekend here at WIU. My mum came to visit and I got to spend time with her and my brother. We went out for breakfast/lunch together and then I got to hang out with my mum in my room for a bit. We went and did a bit of shopping and then came back to rest before dinner. BWW's was a good time. Lots of laughing and good (non-cafeteria) food. We ended up taking some funny pictures in the parking lot before Mum left to go home and it was a fun, successful day! :D





Chartreuse