Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Experiences

Tell about your first experience living away from home. Did you have to do a lot of learning (laundry, cooking, cleaning, budgeting, etc)? Or was it pretty easy and nice to be on your own? Did you get home sick?
Posted by at
Labels:

3 comments:

  1. The FinlinsonsApril 14, 2010 at 7:06 PM

    I don't remember getting too homesick but I definitely needed to call home often (and I still do) to get cooking tips. I'm STILL getting used to doing all the cleaning and budgeting (but its definitely become harder living in a larger place with a child and a very small budget). Its harder...but worth it.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Becca BaxterApril 18, 2010 at 4:47 PM

    Well, when I first moved away from home, I went to Ricks College. It didn't really seem like much of a transition partly because my roommate was my sister (Em). Cleaning, cooking and budgeting are all things I knew how to do well before college, so that wasn't much of a shocker, either. I loved going home to visit, but I wouldn't say I was all that homesick. I think I actually enjoyed being on my own and doing my own thing while I was there. Plus, your roommates become your family, so that also helps. So, on the whole, I'd say it was a pretty easy transition. I guess I can thank my mom for that. She taught me enough of the "basic living" that I needed to know to make it easier to move forward.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Alyssa GreenApril 18, 2010 at 8:46 PM

    I don't think it was much of a shock for me either. I would call home every once in a while for cooking tips, but I had the basics down and have never been afraid to experiment with cooking. In some ways I really enjoyed it because I gained a lot more friendships. I was roommates with all new people, but it helped that my next door neighbor was Brynn Shaw, a neighbor down the street at home. I was also really busy with homework and practicing my flute. Being a music major meant I basically lived at the music building. I had to get used to walking a lot in the cold, but that turned out to be a good thing as well. I lost a lot of weight my first year of college.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)