Wednesday, September 3, 2008

I dreamt of fish

Just got back from a popular Hesston College hangout - Newell's truck stop in Newton. There was weird old fashioned "learn the meaning of your dreams" machine there. Anyway.......
my computer was too much for the "computer readiness center" here at the college. Actually, the problem was that someone put it on the problem table, but when I checked on it, they couldn't actually find any problem with it. So they said they'd finish it. When I went back to check it was on the problem table again. Looked at it, hooked it up - no problem. Finally the girl there told me to just take it. So if it has a problem, it sure isn't giving me any trouble. I guess this is a one-girl computer. Mostly I'm just happy to have it back.
So yeah.....college. 'Crazy' about sums it up. It's kind of a big adjustment - not the academic aspect of it so much (though that is definitely an adjustment) but the social aspect - I'm not the most social person in the world to begin with. I mean, all these people are used to seeing maybe hundreds of people for hours everyday in their high schools. The only people I'm used to seeing everyday are my family. (And I miss them.) But truly, on the whole I like it here. And I've discovered that I can cope with the "aaaah, I'm surrounded by people and there's no way to escape interacting with them" feeling by taking my bike and riding a few miles out into the country and back. That's pretty relaxing for me, though I wish it could be on a horse. (Hesston College is kind of on the edge of Hesston - though Hesston is a small enough town that kind of everything is on the edge of it, if you know what I mean - so a dirt road surrounded by fields begins only a few blocks away from the college) But I am enjoying myself, I like my classes and my roommate and I get along well.
To quote a very cool and smart person's blog which I read faithfully,
"This place feels more familiar every day, and I just don't know how I feel about that."
But.....
I know this is where I am supposed to be - that doesn't mean it will always be easy, but so far it's been right.

I'm going to bed now

1 comment:

Music Discovery Requirements said...

I'm glad you brought your bike. I used to love taking mine out on the dirt roads around Lindsborg. You'll find other places to get away too ... I used to lock myself in the handbell closet on occasion (I guess I can give out that secret now...)