Tough times don't last but tought people do

As the fall semester is coming to its end in December, there are tons of school work to be done.

I'm going to be honest, I been a little lackadaisical this semester. Just the thought of being in college for five year when I could have graduated in four year makes me exhausted.

I had two assignments given to me at the beginning of the semester: a book report for two of my classes. One of them was a 250 page book I had to read and the other one is about 550 pages, which I'm only on page 68 as of right now.

The 250 page book, Twinkies, Deconstructed was about how Hostess, the company that makes those golden sponges, makes Twinkies. I had to write a book report on it and was due on Wednesday. It took me about a week and a half to read it (I'm a slow reader if you could tell). The book I am currently reading right now, Life and Death In Shanghai, is quite interesting so far. It is about a Chinese women's life during the Cultural Revolution. For that book I have a eight page book report due on Monday. Time is only moving forward and I should be reading the book but I decided to take a little break.

As I sit in a rectangular kitchen by myself in a suite at my school, it gives me a lot of down time to think about things, especially home.

Times like these, when school work starts to pile up and have all nighters to finish the work, I start thinking about home. Just the fact that if I was at home, there is that comfort you get from family; always being there for you when times are tough. I hear a lot of people here at school that are from the state of Iowa say, "I miss home," or "I feel homesick." Luckily for them, they only are couple of hours, even minutes away from home. Being about 1,800 miles, 30 hours away from home sucks. But I feel like sometimes, we have to go through this at some point in our lives. I guess its part of growing up.

But I am fortunate meet all the people, especially my teammates, I have this past year and a half to support and push me. Without them, I would probably be insane right now. It's early to say but I am thankful for those guys being there for me.

Well its already 12:27 a.m. here. I better start reading my life away

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”-Muhammad Ali

-Jun