It's now nearing time for the end of another semester. My sophomore year at college is coming to a close. Right now I'm listening to some people outside who are playing guitar and singing. It is a beautiful sunny warmish day out. I'm inside for now. I need to start a research paper that is due on Monday. The sky looks very inviting to me though. If only I could fly! I think that would be one amazing ability. It'd also be VERY environmentally friendly because you wouldn't leave any carbon emissions. Today is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Did you know that? 40 years of people trying to change our way of life so that our Earth can live on after we're gone for the sake of our descendants. Speaking of Earth Day, I'm going to make another blog, which could possibly become filled with some ranting, but I hope it won't come to that. I'm hoping to fill it with friendly advice about relationships, communicating, school, sustainability and whatever else I feel I have an opinion about that I feel is important or it is just something I think might help someone.
Helping people..that's what I love. I love helping people, I empathize quite easily, you can ask the people I'm with the most. I feel bad and can never think of anything to say. People find out I am a Psychology/Family Studies double major and they assume I want to be a counselor, especially when they know I love helping people. I don't think that I want to be a counselor, or even that I would make a good one. I don't even make a good one when I have a script. If however I do become a counselor I think I'd like to work in a high school setting and be a guidance counselor. Maybe my helping people is the reason that I like finding out about ways to "Go Green." I don't know though. We shall see where God leads my life.
Anyway, I suppose that I should get to the title of this post. With the semester coming to a close, it means months without seeing the people I have grown close to over this academic year and for the first time, I actually kept up with the people I hung out with a lot last semester. This fall I'm even rooming with two of the girls I have grown very close to. As happens at the end of semester, I see the couples spending more time together and secluding people from their relationships. I understand. Really, I do. It still hurts those who want to hang out with you before the end of semester as well. You won't see them over the summer either, and let's face it, you'll talk with your significant other more over the summer than any of your other friends and most likely see them as well. It's inevitable. Why do you have to be together so much at the end of the semester?
I personally hate to say goodbye. You can ask my friends from freshman year. I waited until the latest time I could to leave. I only went home when I had to. I cried every time and that made my mom sad. I was happy to go home and be with her, but I felt more social and like myself at school because I am a very social person and I hate to not be around people. At home I'm alone a lot. At least freshman year I was. For the summer my sister, her husband and my nephew are living at my home. I won't be alone a lot. It'll be a nice change. :)
This summer I got a job as a camp counselor at Lake Ellen in the Upper Peninsula. It is a ten hour drive from my house, but I'm okay with that. I'm excited by the possibility of serving at a camp for half of my summer. I say possibility because I have a babysitting job offer at home for the summer. At least, I think that I do. I'm waiting for the call from the lady. I hope she'll call before Monday so I can let Lake Ellen know if I'll be working there or not. I have all of these choices laid out before me for my future (near and distant) and I don't know what roads I want to take, let alone where I want to be in the end that could guide me as to what roads to take.
