Visits home

this weekend was the first weekend home since labor day which was when me and my sister went home together. It felt like I had just visited my sister at ISU not like I had actually gone away to school. Yet this weekend I came home by myself and it hit me that I was indeed away at school. It’s weird to think about going away to school, not only do you not have a room that you can call your own but things change a lot. For example this weekend when I came home my parents acted like I saw them act when my sister would go home, they would go out of their way to please her and make her visit one that she would remember which it always was. Weekends home are always memorable especially at my house, they are never spent just relaxing, they are chaotic and very eventful, but in a very good way. Since being away at school I randy realized why I enjoy being away at school, its because everything is up to me, I can either do my homework and study or not but in the end its up to me, ive become more and more independent. Its been great going away to school. This weekend I spent with close friends and family. i left Thursday nite and I stayed at my sisters dorm for the night and then I left for my train at 7am. The earliest Ive been up since I moved to Springfield. What an adventure. My train was late getting to Chicago union station so I had to wait 45 minutes till the next train heading to my hometown…aka Libertyville. Even though Ive taken that train before I have to admit union station freaks me out. AHHHHHHHHHH anyway now that I got that out of my system, I got home and my mom made me lunch and then by the time lunch was over. We then went shopping for things I did not necessarily needed but definitely wanted. Later that night, I went out with one of my very good friends back home. After we hung out for a while I went home and tried to do some hw but I was not very effective at it so I gave up and went to bed. Saturday morning I woke up just in time for breakfast then my mother and I went to run errands and then we headed to my brothers football game. He won for the first time so I was glad I was able to see it. After going to the game, we headed straight to the apple orchard since my mom had planned for our family to go apple picking with our church. I was exhausted but after picking apples I showered and decided to go out with tom one last time before I had to go back to school…Overall this visit was very good, different but good. I didn’t expect my parents to act differently just because I was away at school but they did. I guess that’s expected though so whateve……till next time.