Adjusting...

Part 1 of 2

It is really difficult getting used to a new place, being away from home, and simply being out of your comfort zone.

I speak from experience.

My first time at college was extremely hard for me because I had never really been away from home for longer than a week at-a-time, and even then it was to go to summer camp. College brought a whole new level of being away from home and being, as my mom calls me, "a home body" was not easy. at. all.

I had field hockey and orientation to keep me busy, and then classes started and I started making friends with the girls on my floor, and field hockey picked up and games started and things were going well. There were definitely still times where I would cry, and miss my family, but having a cell phone made it easy to call and check in.

Now, I've been at Bay Path for 5 semesters and honestly, at the end of last semester I was ready to get the heck out of there. Don't get me wrong I love the place, the faculty and staff, and of course my friends are wonderful; but I was sick of the drama and immaturity and ready for a change.

Good thing I was headed abroad for 3 months

Because I didn't go back to Bay Path this semester my winter break was almost 7 weeks instead of about 5 and a half, which I was fine with :-P
that is until everyone was together again and I was trying to find things to keep me from going insane with boredom at home...

Fast-forward to this past Monday, the first day of classes.

My original schedule was to have Italian, History of Architecture, Interior Design, and an Interior Design internship. Come to find out, all of my classes (except for Italian) were to be one-on-one, me and the professor...not exactly what I had been expecting.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against one-on-one TUTORING sessions but I didn't want that for 95% of my CLASSES.