Moving Away from Home

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Moving Away From Home Surely, time does fly awfully fast. I can remember when I was still in elementary; drinking orange juice and cookies, playing at recess, bringing my toys in for show and tell, making arts and crafts to take home to my parents, and more. Then, suddenly I realized the moment I’ve been waiting for has arrived. All the pain, agony, struggling, and time I’ve wasted away in my life are about to pay off. It was the beginning of my college life. Life was taking on a whole new shape. Four more years to go and I’ll be out of here. With this new feeling of life, I told myself that I was going to do every college activity and anything else I could do to make it the best stage of school I would ever have. These were the things I realized and pondered way back June of 2008, before I entered St. Scholastica’s College, Manila for my college life. Nevertheless, going away to college can be a scary experience. College life involves a variety of emotions. It can be exciting, nerve-wracking and scary all at the same time, but once Mom and Dad drive away, many students feel overwhelmed and homesick. In as much as students are confronted with new academic and social challenges, the support system they have known their whole lives is now under a different roof. I could still remember the very first day I left home to study my college degree. I was excited to experience dorm life and to finally experience independent living from family after how many years being with them. However, I was also feeling nervous and hesitant thinking on how to deal the new world just of my own. Around first week of June 2008, Monday afternoon, my mother and my brother drove Arlene, my roommate, and I to our boarding house in Manila. The boarding house was just walking distance from St. Scholastica’s College. When we got there, they helped us to move our things up on the third floor
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