Struggles...

College has been amazing so far, but it also is very difficult too. When I was in my hometown, I had a girlfriend of 3 years. She goes to Coe now and I go here. I go down at least once or twice a week. I never thought that it would be this hard to be apart even though we are an hour a way. I came into this now long distance relationship as oh, it won't be that bad. We will see each other at least once a week or so. Now seeing how important she is to me and how much time we actually spent together and how you cannot just remove that completely and be fine. The two of us have found a nice little system of seeing each other and also how to cope with the other one not being there all the time. Having classes definitely helps, this makes us busy so our mind isn't always 100% on the other one. We are also both very busy with sports and they keep us both extremely busy. Even though we are very far away, I think it has brought us together. If we do manage to stay together, which I really think we will, we will go back and be like wow that was really easy to things that we will have to worry about later in life. It's always nice to have someone who is always there to talk to about everything and considering she is a lot smarter than me, I can always get answers from her :). Also being away from my puppy Lola is hard too, as hard as it is to admit. We adopted her last April. Our old dog died last christmas and my parents said no new dog ever. Then my dad warmed up to the idea and then well we got one and our whole family fell in love with her. She and I are best friends. Sometimes I even Skype her or talk to her on the phone. She is always so happy to see me when I go home. We used to share my bed every night when I was back at home. I don't know if you call sharing 90% of the bed is her's and I get the lousy 10%. She is so adorable and I miss her a lot too. Of course I miss my family, but I'm not really home sick. I was fully ready to get away. Well gotta head out to baseball so maybe another blog tonight.