Homesick

In reading Lucy this week I realized we had a slight connection. I came to college last year with high hopes and great expectations. When I arrived at Saint Mary's the first week was great! I made friends and kept in touch with the ones in high school I'd sworn I'd never forget. But as the first few weeks turned into the first few months I began to experience a feeling of homesickness. I wanted my old life back, the everyday repeativeness of highschool. My friends I had grown up with, being around my sister and parents who drove me crazy on a daily basis. I missed that and I wanted to go back.
Like Lucy I was in a strange new place and i began to think of my dreams as distant unrealistic ideas. She left her homeland and came to America with the hopes of discovering the "American Dream" and in the beginning of the story she is going through nothing but hard times. Maybe its like people say "you have to sacrifice everything if you want to earn anything" She gave up everything that she had in her homeland and moved to strange new place where she didn't know anyone. She had a job that required more out of her than she'd ever known. And she struggled with that responsibility.

Although I am now in my second year here at Saint Marys I still get that sick feeling in my sometimes. I miss the people who made me who i am and who've helped me over come the challenges I've faced in my life. College is not easy and studying has never come easy to me, in highschool I never opened a book and got straight "A's". But here i have to work hard everyday just to get good enough grades to get by. Most of my friends from highschool are also so busy that I rarely talk to them or see them. But everyday I am thankful that I was so blessed to be able to come to such a good school, although I miss home sometimes deep down I know its time to grow up and accept the responsibility that has been given to me. The same way Lucy begins to realize her dreams aren't fake, and anything is possible if you just work for it.