Here I am, in a McDonalds in San Diego, waiting for
RoseMarie, my friend from Semester at Sea. It’s Cinco de Mayo, which means I’ve
been off the ship for a few days now. I’m going to spend the day with
RoseMarie, and then the night and tomorrow with my friend from SAS, Rheanna and
meet up with Julie too! I’m so excited. I miss the ship and everyone on it and
everything about it (well except the food ;)) sooo much. I wish I had time to blog about my
feelings leaving, and my summary of the whole semester, what I’ve learned, and
how I’ve changed, but things have been crazy. Dad and Uncle Al picked me up
from the ship. I was one of the last people off, and was grateful for it. I
cried a lot that morning. I wasn’t expecting to be so upset. It was really
really sad. Just knowing that it was all over, we wouldn’t be going back after
a summer vacation like normal college, and we wouldn’t ever get to be with
everyone in the same place, at the same time ever again. So sad!! It’s the first
time I’ve gone through something like this. When you leave High School you know
you’ll see your friends all together for many more times to come..and college
hasn’t ended yet. It was such a weird, morbid feeling. Like someone had died
almost. It was just so sad. I’ve really been missing everything about it. It’s
such a weird feeling. I was in a car for the first time, where I actually knew
the driver..for the first time in 4 months.Weird things like that catch you off gurad..like WHOA..what is this?!
So when Dad and Uncle Al picked me up we went to Coronado
Island and went to the famous hotel. I ran into a couple of my friends on the beach-it
was so great to see them, since it was a pretty depressing feeling leaving,
then headed to my Great Aunt and Uncle’s Bed and Breakfast on the beach in San
Diego. There I spent the night in a room by myself for the first time in 4
months-also really weird. I read a map that I had all of my friends sign before
leaving. That made me miss them even more, but was so great to read. The next
day we headed to LA to check out the apartments I will be living in starting
May 2nd. They’re beautiful! I can’t wait. I then talked to a wedding
planner I’m 90% sure I’m interning with this summer-she sounds great and fun
and I can’t wait! Its going to be a blast! Then we went to Hollywood Blvd and the
famous wax musem. The fake celebrities looked INSANELYreal! It was so weird.
Lots of times I couldn’t tell if figures were real or not! Then we headed to a
hotel on the way to San Diego, and then yesterday headed to San Clemente, where
we stayed the night. We went to the beach there yesterday. Its so beautiful in
California. I walked out onto the pier and looked at the ocean, and it reminded
me so much of being out in the ocean..my former home. Ugh, it made me miss it
so much. This is such a weird adjustment. It’s hard. I want to go back so bad.
Now I’m meeting up with Rose Marie..it will be so great to spend time with her
and Rheanna and Julie, and try to ignore the fact that SAS is over! We're going to a festival today and continuing to celebrate Cinco de Mayo at night! I’m going to
a church in La Jolla tomorrow with Rheanna-one that Seth Nenstiel, my friend
from Ithaca told me about like a year and a half ago. After that I think I’m
going near LA with another friend from SAS, Bryana, and spending a few days
with her at her school. Then I’ll be heading back to San Diego, and staying
with my friend Chad from home for a few days..then finally visiting my SAS
friend Katie, in Orange, before making my way to LA. So it will be a fun,
adventure these next 2 weeks. A lot of thing unknown and unplanned-but I’m
excited for the unexpected.
I hope to be able to blog about China, Japan, Hawaii, life
on the ship at the end, and my conclusion of the semester as soon as I can-as
well as an update on how Cali life is going!
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
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