Moving On

I'm going to warn you before reading this that the whole thing may not make complete sense. It's just my feelings at the moment so they might now flow very well and I apologize for that. Right now I'm sitting in my room for the summer all moved in and it's a little strange. For some reason it feels like I'm an actual adult on my own. Growing up and getting older is strange. It's like you take little steps of independence and then suddenly you're kind of on your own. Yes I graduated from high school 3 years ago and I've been at college for 3 years, but that feels so much different. At school I'm away from my family, but there's always been an adult-type figure watching me. In the dorms it was the RA or hall coordinators in DG it's Janine our house mom [house director technically]. Right now I'm all moved into this house where I'll be living with 4 other girls. There isn't a parent here, no one to clean for me, no one to cook my meals. I've known it was going to be like this since I decided to live here, but now sitting here in my room it's strange. In all reality I'm planning on going home this weekend so I'll really be on my own for a few days. Also it's just for the summer, and then in August I'll be back in DG with 33 other women. But for these next 3ish months I'll get a taste of what I think it means to be an "adult". I'll be working [even if one of those is lifeguarding so not a "real" adult job in my opinion], cooking for myself, cleaning, and not doing any schoolwork. I feel like it'll just be a strange time and I'm not really sure yet how I feel about this whole getting older thing. I'm sure I'll continue to update you on these feelings as the summer progresses. Now I'll leave you with a few pictures of my new room for the summer with everything unpacked. I have sterile training in the morning and then working at IDPH. So I'll probably read some more of book before going to bed since I have to be at Methodist at 8 am and can't sleep until 11 am like I did today.