I am really missing my freedom and well, college life! A lot of freshmen have told me that they were not expecting to miss college life, but they are. I can not wait to start my new classes!

I am excited about getting a new roomate. Seeing my friends who can not stop contacting me! Haha, they need to enjoy their time off! And I miss my car! *shakes head at self*

To me, my car equals my freedom. I am stuck until some one leaves the house here. Plus, I have no clue where I am going in Philly! Not a clue! Do not drop me at the corner because I will not be able to find my way back to my grandmothers house!

I just got home from the movies with my mom and my grandmother. We saw I Am Legend, and National Treasure the day before. My dad is going to take me to the movies tomrorow. By the new year, I am going to be so sick of going to the movies!

Well anyway, I am looking forward to getting back into the flow of Lynn. I am only a freshmen, and I have a ton of school pride!

I’ve had fun with my family, but I am ready to get back to Boca Raton. First tuesday back, I am grabing Cristina and Tony, and we are going clubing!

My dad was the first to wish me a Merry Christams. He called me at like 12:01. Something like that. Lol. I was like, ah, ok dad, thanks.

This whole week has been about one thing, sports. No matter who is in the room, we have the TV playing some sport, basketball, football, ice skating, golf. It has been crazy here.

My aunt sent the best stuff. We opened some of our presents at 1 am since we were all up doing nothing. My mom was on the phone, I was playing computer games, and my grandmother was watching, you guessed it, sports.

So far, its been interesting. I have heard from some people I haven’t spoken to or seen in a very long time all this week. It seems the week for people to come out of know where! Very exciting. I can’t wait to spend New Year’s day with some friends I haven’t seen in years!

Off to bed I go!

Merry Christmas Lynn University!!!!

I have been bored out of my mind at my grandmother’s house, that was, until yestorday!

My mom showed up from DC, finally! My dad dropped by to say hello.

Then today, my mom was at the store with my grandmother and ran into some one we haven’t seen in 13 years! It was funny because the same woman had ran into some one she hadn’t seen in 10 years a few minutes earlier and my mom over heard them talking. If she hadn’t, they still wouldn’t have seen each other. We are going to their house on Jan 1st for a party! Way to bring in the new year with old friends!

My dad brought my brother with him tonight. It was great, we talked about old times when I was little, and the time we all went camping in New York. It was crazy! Lots of laughter. Best night ever! I got to chill with my family. I got to hang out with my dad and brother!

Downside of the night? I found out Grandma had eaten all the chocolate chip cookies for lunch!

Since I have been home, I have had the time to get back to writing my short stories. I have been working on two of them and having a blast being creative with them.

I know Cristina loves to read them since I like to add crazy twists to them, I have been sending them to her over facebook.

I am just enjoying the time off where I have no stress and can do something that I love. Now for a short writing break! Hehe. I am going to read! Man, I feel like such a huge nerd today!

I am home in Philly right now and its great, you know, besides the fact that its freezing, I have no car, and my mom is still not here. Lol.

It is so cold in Philadelphia. My grandfather had to take me shopping for a new coat that would keep me warmer than my last one.

Best part about coming home was walking into the house and asking my grandmother for food. She had already pulled out a ton of food from the frig and I well, I ate it all! Home cooked food by grandma! YES!

My mom gets in tomorrow so I am very excited.

Plus, I get to sleep as much as I want, oh ya baby! No homework, no exams, I can just kick back and relax. Its awsome since I have to do a better job next semester than I did this past one. Yikes. Didn’t do as well as I would like. I did ok, just not as well as I would like.

For the past two days, I have been trying to work on a lot of diffrent assignments, which has been extremely hard to do. Why you may ask? BECAUSE MY FRIENDS KEEP CALLING EVERY 5 MINUTES!!!!! Try getting some peace and quiet around here! Apparently its unnatural.

It has been very hard trying to keep my focus when my phone rings every 5 minutes. Today, around crunch time for me to finish my Isearch paper, I had people calling me like crazy asking stupid questions. Last night I had to deal with Rob nagging me at 11pm  to go out with them to smoke Shisha. Seeing how I was already in my PJ’s and still only on page 6 of my paper that needed to be at least 10, I was not happy to be distracted. He would not stop and I was starting to get upset.

Eric kept calling to see what I was up to, not really asking much, just wanted to know what I was doing. I hate when I say I am still working, and people say “really???” all surprised, when they are the reason why its taking me so long. I wanted to be like, well its hard to get any work done since you just called 10 minutes ago!

I am starting to feel like I am the only person in the world who has anything to do right now and no one is being supportive.

Today I got to the point where I just wanted to throw my phone against the wall. That was it. I was sick of the damn thing ringing all the time. The only thing stopping me? Its an expensive phone that I just got replaced!

By the time I got back to my room this afternoon, after all of my classes let me out and I had finished, I was pretty much pissed off. I had so much rage build up that people could not fulfill simple request to let me work that I probably could have climbed the wall with my bear hands. I was seirously ticted off.

I went my friends a long text message explaining to them that they needed to stop calling me all the fricken time. I told them that unless they are dying, I don’t want to be called. Simple as that. I have work to do, which I probably would have finished by now if it was not for all the damn calling me and asking me to go out all day long. How is it they have all the time in the world to go out?  I need to switch majors!

I was taking a much needed nap today when I was woken up by a veterinarian that I have been trying to get in touch with for weeks now. Do to my laziness, I left it to last minute. So it was nice to hear from him anyway, I am going to do my final project on my interview for English class.

Who calls me after that? Rob. I rejected the call.  Clearly, it was not all that important since he didn’t leave a voice mail message.

I get stress during finals, and I get easily distracted as well. Not a good combo. I am trying to do well  in all of my classes before I leave, but my friends are making it very hard which is only making it more stressful for me. My hardest exams are at the beginning of the week which is no help. I have a paper to write, and I am slowly getting to the bottom of my list of things to do.

I just want to scream at them, “I AM TRYING TO PASS MY CLASSES, BUG OFF!”

Well, I had woken up from my nap all happy until Rob started calling me again. That popped my happy bubble. Now back to work…. *sighs* almost over… almost over…then I can be burried in who knows how many feet of know up North for the Holidays.

I saw a friend of mine who happens to be from Kuwait today out side with some friends of his. He told me they were all from Kuwait, which made me very excited. I miss Kuwait greatly and I miss the sound of Arabic.

I grew up in the Middle East so its hard for me to be away from area that I love. It was a nice surprise to be able to talk about the Middle East and hear Arabic. Although, I am extremely rusty on my Arabic. I hardly understood a word! It was driving me crazy. I haven’t spoken it in so long that I felt like a new comer to the table.

Well now I have some new Kuwaiti friends to help me practice!

Lynn is full of Kuwaiti kids… or maybe I am just drawn to them like a magnet? Just one of the things I love about Lynn. Full of diffrent cultures and languages!

I miss the Middle East a lot. Some days I feel like my heart is crying out to return over seas, even if it is for a day. To me, the desert is my home.

I am so happy to be back to my dorm room. I had fun with my family, but I was starting to miss my freedom a little too much.

Sadly, soon as I arrived in DC, my cell phone broke. I didn’t realize it was the phone, not the charger until I got back. Long long long, story that I do not feel like going into details over. I’m a little upset since it has so much information on it and that I use it all the time for everything. I am almost not sure how to function at school without it.

Thank goodness T Mobile has all my information online that was on my cell phone so I can find my address book and call people to tell them that my phone is broken.

Now I have to run around town tomorrow to try and get my phone fixed in the middle of my always busy monday’s. Great.

Just a few more hours until I get on that plane that will take me home! I can not wait! I have not been home in months. I miss my family, my cats, my room, my own bed, and my own bathroom!!!!

Now I just have to live through this last class and pack…. yes I said pack. I need to throw clothes in my bag and go.

I am having breakfast with my friends before we all leave. Rob’s idea. I think he’s going to miss having two girls boss him around all day long. Hehe. I helped him pack last night.

Cristina already knows I am going to miss her. I complained about her being gone the whole time she was away at a family wedding.

I am excited. I get to go home!

This is my 100th post! Cool.

So what have I learned? College is just like high school in many ways. Jocks kind of stuck together, Greeks stick together, etc, but in the end, since everyone is so much of a blend of many groups, we all end up crossing paths at some point.

Stupid school fights still happen. Middle school drama is common. We still complain about the caf food and our feelings have not changed about homework. You never have to tell a college student twice to relax and enjoy a break twice.

We hardly ever sleep, we live by coffee (Starbucks makes a killing off of college students.)

College is full of friends that later become family. Professors are cooler than ever. Its cool to hang with your professor at Christines while having tutoring with them. (They seem to have more of a life than high school teachers.)

It is still about fancy toys for some people. Dating is a sport for some people like in high school. Although, I find school spirit a lot stronger in college than in high school, which I really like.

So what is good about college? I like that I can be myself. I don’t have to pretend to fit in. We have all kinds of groups, individuals from all over the world, tons of cultures under on roof, and seem to always find a way to laugh. What I love most is my freedom. Although, it is a blessing and a curse. Humans tend to not look at the downside of some things. I had to grow up a lot since graduation. No one is forcing me to go to class. Now I have to make myself get up in the mornings. I have to make sure I eat the right food. It is a lot of unexpected responsibility. Money is a concern a lot of the time. Sometimes college students forget that money doesn’t grow on trees. It has something to do with the new found freedom. Even responsible students sometimes forget.

Blasting music may not make the person living next door very happy. It can be hard to get alone time. There are always people everywhere.

Then there is the fact that college is not for everyone. People drop out, or their parents take them home since they are not ready. Its ok to not be ready. Its better to leave and be happy, than be depressed and endanger yourself by being in a bad environment for yourself.

At the moment, I am pissed off with some one. I will confront them later. Right now its the middle of the night. I just did not like how some one talked to me tonight and it was not right. Or maybe I will sleep it off…

I am looking forward to going home. I cannot wait! Just a few more days. A few more hours! YES!!!!