We college students here at SFA have about three weeks until move in weekend! Then some of us have about a week until we move into our apartments for the year. Or if you’re in my situation, you are moving into your new apartment in less than a week, and then also helping your parents move to a new house, in a new city. A lot to do! So I decide to make a short list about what I have found while packing both my room to move into my apartment, and my parent’s house.
What the heck was I thinking?
So, while packing you might have found some sort of knick-knack. For me, it was a small SpongeBob box filled with random things. For example, opening up the box, I found marbles, some hairpins (what?), safety pins and for some reason, like three keys. Still don’t know what they go to.
Wow, I (didn’t) have a wonderful sense of style!
The early 2000’s! One of the first times we have memories of the clothes we wore. Going through your closet, you might find a few pieces of clothing for that magical style. Now, I have done this before. Through the multiple times of moving in my lifetime, I somehow acquire a lot of ugly plaid button-up shirts. I mean A LOT. Going through all these clothes, I’m not going to lie, I was disappointed in myself (but we thought we were SOOO cool).
I’m so ready to leave!
It’s getting close. You can almost taste. That sweet freedom of become an adult! Before you get ready to leave though, think about all the things. Take in everything that you have packed up. Everything that you have put in boxes for storage or to take with you. Yes, you’re ready to leave, but you don’t have to grow up so quickly.
Memories.
Like the small SpongeBob box I found, I remember my childhood friend and me putting these random knick-knacks, saying they were “artifacts.” Or the style of clothes from the 2000’s. I see my best friend (which we are basically brother and sister) at a barn for some kind of event my parents asked us to go to.
(See, I might look bad, but this memory is one of my favs!)
(What was I thinking with that haircut?!)
(AND THE ACNE)
(AND THE BRACES)
From the moment you have either signed up for your dorm, or you have signed the lease on your apartment, you have been dreaming of this moment. Waiting to leave, and start the new chapter in your life. There is something that you haven’t thought of yet though I bet. Everything that you’ve done. For me, I have lived in the same town for about 18 years, I’m 21, so that’s a long time. Even when I moved off to school, I still came back. I subbed at the junior high for a year and a half. I’ve made friendships, and I’ve lost friends. The thing with moving is you get to find new facts about yourself that you forgot. You get to relive memories that you may have forgotten. Whichever way we go, we have grown in the towns we came from. The lessons we’ve learned, weren’t always the same as others, but we’ve learned how to deal with these problems from our hometowns, from the memories we’ve made.
