Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Nostalgia
So, I'm moving back to Calgary on Friday, likely never to return to "The City of Champions" (???)...a.k.a. Edmonoton/Edmonchuck/Deadmonton, and over the past, well probably 2 weeks have gotten pretty sad about the whole situation.
I moved here almost 4 years ago, a scared...well, little girl, and now I am leaving pretty much all grown up. I don't really think I would trade any of my experiences for anything, because they shaped me into the person I have become. I look back at my 1st year university self, and am just in awe of how far I have come. I remember my very first week in Lister Hall...crying alone in my dorm room because for the first time in my life I was genuinely homesick. This was a shock to me for sure, having gone to overnight camps every summer for as long as I could remember. I didn't have the social skills that I have since developed to go out and meet people, let alone strike up a conversation. and even with all the events planned before classes started, that was probably the hardest week (4 days??) of my life. I also don't really think that being an engineering student for the first term helped my social life either...holed up in my room all the time trying to make sense of physics and moments (*shudder*).
I'm not even sure what the turning point was, when I became friends with those girls who I think I will stay friends with forever. We suffered together through the worst FC in history, aramark food, our first uni midterm week from hell, and I would like to say our first night of drunken rowdyness, but I don't really think we shared that moment, or even experienced it...which looking back is really ok with me.
Anyway...the following are some of the roses and thorns of the past 4 years in no particular order, other than the order I thought of them in...
Things I will ACTUALLY miss about Edmonton:
-the people
-Sonic 102.9 (mainly garner andrews)
-corbett hall
-the local music scene
-west ed
-whyte ave
-having my own place
-the river valley
-"free" use of the pool/gym
-going to uni volleyball games
-having full control over what i watch on TV
Things I am happy to leave behind:
-the people
-the crazy oilers fans
-corbett hall
-exams/papers/textbooks/crazy profs/TAs
-Lister/FCs (i.e. Lisa)/Residence/Aramark food
-communal laundry
-fire alarms at any given moment
-taking the bus everywhere
-the weather
-walking for groceries
-lack of a dishwasher
Those are actually pretty balanced lists, so as much as I/people in general complain about edmonton...it wasn't really that bad.
I'll be seeing you.
I moved here almost 4 years ago, a scared...well, little girl, and now I am leaving pretty much all grown up. I don't really think I would trade any of my experiences for anything, because they shaped me into the person I have become. I look back at my 1st year university self, and am just in awe of how far I have come. I remember my very first week in Lister Hall...crying alone in my dorm room because for the first time in my life I was genuinely homesick. This was a shock to me for sure, having gone to overnight camps every summer for as long as I could remember. I didn't have the social skills that I have since developed to go out and meet people, let alone strike up a conversation. and even with all the events planned before classes started, that was probably the hardest week (4 days??) of my life. I also don't really think that being an engineering student for the first term helped my social life either...holed up in my room all the time trying to make sense of physics and moments (*shudder*).
I'm not even sure what the turning point was, when I became friends with those girls who I think I will stay friends with forever. We suffered together through the worst FC in history, aramark food, our first uni midterm week from hell, and I would like to say our first night of drunken rowdyness, but I don't really think we shared that moment, or even experienced it...which looking back is really ok with me.
Anyway...the following are some of the roses and thorns of the past 4 years in no particular order, other than the order I thought of them in...
Things I will ACTUALLY miss about Edmonton:
-the people
-Sonic 102.9 (mainly garner andrews)
-corbett hall
-the local music scene
-west ed
-whyte ave
-having my own place
-the river valley
-"free" use of the pool/gym
-going to uni volleyball games
-having full control over what i watch on TV
Things I am happy to leave behind:
-the people
-the crazy oilers fans
-corbett hall
-exams/papers/textbooks/crazy profs/TAs
-Lister/FCs (i.e. Lisa)/Residence/Aramark food
-communal laundry
-fire alarms at any given moment
-taking the bus everywhere
-the weather
-walking for groceries
-lack of a dishwasher
Those are actually pretty balanced lists, so as much as I/people in general complain about edmonton...it wasn't really that bad.
I'll be seeing you.
Comments:
AWWW. Now you have me feeling all emotional and nostalgic. How dare you. It's too early in the morning to be emoting. Congrats on being an adult. I don't have to grow up for one more year, sucka.
Carolyn
Carolyn
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: 8:23 AM
: 8:23 AM
Long time no talk! Even though I'm not finished this year, and I don't have to leave my precious Victoria with it's mild climate and year-round green grass, I know how you feel. I have some of my closest university friends finishing this year and going away all grown up. My friend Sonya has been busy doing auditions in the States for grad school, and it's really hitting me hard that she (as well as others) will be gone next year. I know that I am not ready to be done, and that's why I'm so grateful for having another 2 years here. I guess you could say that I'm taking the extended version of university, but I couldn't be happier. I'm not ready to grow up yet. I wish you all the best! I can't believe so many people I know are almost done!! I'll be back in Calgary at the end of April...we'll have to get together for drinks/dessert/dinner. Talk to you later!
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