Dorm Life and Other Shenanigans: Volume 2

I now live on an apartment near the university I'm studying. I've been living there for actually two weeks now. I usually come home in the weekends for the laundry and stacking up my resources. I actually never thought this would materialize. It all happened so fast but I managed. Being away from home is hard, I admit, but when I rationalize my decision, the pluses actually outweighs the minuses.

I may be away from home and for the first time, I'm living on my own. I think about what to eat and what to do for the whole day. I'm not new with planning my activities for the day though the food planning is a little difficult because I'm conscious with what I eat.

I'm adjusting to my body clock too. Now that I live near the university, I don't have to wake up in the wee hours of the morning but my body is just used to waking up. I always get up at around 6:00 AM and I'm usually the first one in the apartment awake. After waking up, I always seat on the couch outside the rooms and wait for something or someone to happen. Despite waking up too early, I rarely arrived late in my classes unlike last semester.

There are little distractions in my studies but I can do little with my assignments since I haven't brought my laptop in the apartment yet. There's no wireless Internet connection there but I'm not complaining since I needed some time off the net during weekdays.

Roommates are not pests, honestly but I'm having troubles of fitting in since we have differences and I mean big ones like tastes in music and lifestyle. (Please do not spill this one or I will end those who are responsible for the leakage.)

About sleeping, I'm always the first one to go to bed among all the boarders but when finally sleeping, I fail to keep myself in a deep sleep.

So far, I'm still adjusting to this new lifestyle but I'm looking forward to learn some lessons along the way. I don't want to get tired with traveling too much though I miss riding the train and jeepney home with the music of my taste on my earbuds. I also miss walking with my friends on the way home, joking and talking about movies.

Speaking of which, I got separated from my friends this semester.I'm also on my own in the classroom. I joined a new section where I don't know most of the people. I'm only familiar with them through the organization I joined and some of the students there became my classmates during my freshman year. It's a new environment to me. Totally different personalities from the section I came from but it's good to meet new people. Like the dorm life, I never expected this part to happen too but unlike the dorm life, I did not plan this well.

I can't compare them to my original section because these two groups have differences but all I can say so far is that I enjoy both sections though I can't help but miss my friends back in the group I came from.

Hikari

Back in my high school shenanigans, there's this girl that I met on Friendster. Yeah. I used Friendster back when Facebook was still a baby. I was still addicted with Naruto, an anime series for those who didn't know, and since I'm in puberty, I searched for character accounts of Sakura Haruno, my favorite Naruto character, on Friendster. I clicked this particular account because of the profile picture which I think is cute. I browsed at the profile and saw the e-mail address and I decided to add it up in my Yahoo! Messenger contacts. Fortunately, she accepted it. When she was logged in, I sent her a message and unexpectedly, she replied and actually, I never expect to have fun conversations with her because I'm not used with meeting people online.

Days and a few months passed and we chatted some more until she stopped logging in. I think it all stopped by the end of my sophomore year. I actually don't know what happened to her and why she never came back online.

The reason why she resurfaced on my mind is because of this song.

This song appeared on her blog which she gave me the link in one of our chatting sessions. I heard it from the video game, Kingdom Hearts. Obviously.

Now, the reason why I blurted this all out is because I want to try to look for her. I want to reconnect with her and I want to be friends with her again and possibly, be more than friends.

I liked her. Better than my "first experience" with love.