My mom flew out of Boise this morning. It
wasn’t a surprise, I’ve known that she was leaving today for the past three
weeks, but it’s still hard. I know that this may seem mundane for some, after
all, college is about embarking upon an adventure without your parents. It just
means a little bit more to me because I won’t see my mother until I fly back at
Christmas, unless you count the phone calls at awkward times because of the
eight hour time difference.
I guess I should have prefaced this by
explaining one of the more interesting parts about my family. For the past
eight years we’ve been living overseas in The Netherlands. (No, the Dutch don’t
wear orange all the time, nor do they wear clogs, yes there are a lot of dams,
and yes there are tulips everywhere).
So when I say that my mother flew out of Boise, I mean she is now on a ten-hour
flight to Amsterdam.
I am certainly excited to embark upon my
journey through college, but it is still a little frightening knowing that I
don’t have my parents as a safety net. I’ve made some friends here who rush off
to have dinner with their sister, or go home to have a family day on Sunday, and
it only reminds me that I don’t have that luxury.
College is going to be a grand adventure,
and I’m excited for it, but I’m gonna miss my mom.
I get where you're coming from, my situation definitely isn't the same as yours because my mom is only in Washington but it is weird. Not having her close enough to see everyday is so weird because she is my best friend. I know it's not the same thing but I understand how you feel.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter is at the University of San Francisco, which includes a lot of California students, and in her first couple years she reported a similar thing: It's hard when folks leave campus to be with their families on the weekend. Pretty lonely, at least at first. She's a senior now, and yes, she misses her mom, too. More than her dad, I think.
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