It all began 24 hours ago when I started packing for college. My name is Clara and I have decided that I want to go to college. I don't know why you don't have to go to college to be a carpenter. but none of my family ever went to college, I think that's why i want to go, i'd be different from everyone else. I would have a good job and not work at my family's business. Everyone in my family has done the same thing, graduate high school and immediately started working at the family business called "rummage and things". It's a store that has practically everything, ranging from pots and pans to clothes and food. My parents and I would always get into fights about my future.
I always wanted to be a carpenter, I don't know why but I loved the thought of going to college and getting my own dorm with unlimited privacy. I also loved the thought of being away from my family enough for me to relax and actually have some time to breathe and to make my own decisions. But now that i think about it my family was just being protective and i don't think i am ready to move so far away just yet. my grandma still calls me "cookie Clara '', it's a name she called me when i was little. when my grandma and I would always bake cookies together after school. Then, as I was lost in thought, my mom came into the room to see if I needed help packing and she could tell that I was not ready to go. That's when she came up with an idea that we would get our van and have a mother daughter road trip all the way to Hartford college. college didn't even start for another two days, so it was perfect. When we finally got packed we put our luggage in the back of the van and we set off on our most wild journey ever.....
At that moment, as I was in the van with my mother, I felt so happy. At this moment I looked out the window to see a beautiful view of a huge open field with deer eating grass and with mountains so green they looked blue, with no worries or doubts in my mind knowing I had my whole future ahead of me… We eventually had to stop at a convenience store to get gas for our car and some food. My mom always calls them ‘road snacks’ . It makes me laugh everytime she calls them that. When we got back in the car my mom told me something that I didn't believe was coming out of her mouth. In summary she said that she was happy I was going to college and that she was proud of how I want to live my life, she even said that she admires the expectations I set for myself. I don't know why but I felt accomplished when she said this, I think I even felt complete.
We did get into some challenges along the way though. About a third of the way there it started to downpour and we saw thunder and lightning so we had to pull over to a rest area and wait out the storm. Thank god that my mom plans for these things. She brought some board games for us to play so we wouldn't get bored. We first played monopoly, after that we played go fish and uno. It was really fun. Then we put the games away, we got out the blankets and set up the bed. As we were doing this we started talking about boys. I don't know how but we got into some things that we never knew about each other. It felt so refreshing to have a good conversation with my mom without fighting. I think at that moment we began to see each other in a different way, we didn't see each other as mother and daughter, we saw each other as friends, I think I could even say that we saw each other as best friends.
It was the next morning and we woke up to a surprise… The storm had caused us to have an oil leak and I forgot to turn off the car so the battery was completely dead. So when we had finished breakfast we had to walk to a strange town called “mystic falls” and buy a new battery and get a tow truck to pick up the van that's just outside of town. When we got our van into the auto shop it took an hour and a half to fix it because they were super busy. While we waited we walked across the street to a cafe, when we got inside the smell of coffee and pie swept past my nose as i sat down at the nearest table, it felt as though i had been here before but the feeling of new sightings still was in my mind as i looked around the whole room. We spent the afternoon there, sitting at table four lost in a deep mother daughter conversation. Around 12:30 in the afternoon my mom got a call saying that our car was done being fixed so we quickly left to get back on our road trip.
It had been a couple more hours and we had finally arrived at the college. At this moment I had a mixture of feelings swarming around in my heart along with thousands of questions to follow. It was almost overwhelming how many questions I had, how many feelings I had to follow, how big the campus was and how it felt like thousands of people all in one place at the same time. We parked the car and got all of my stuff out of the car and my dorm room. It was around 5:00PM and that meant that it was time for the parents to go. This was the hard part, leaving your mom. The person who raised you and talked about boys with you, then having to be separated from this person is unbearable. As we held each other in our arms my mom pulled me tight into a hug. Then my mother whispered into my ear “everything will be alright, you will do great here, i am very proud of you” when i heard this all my worries went away and i felt a mixture of emotions, and i felt a single tear roll down my cheek. My mom then strayed away from the grasp of my arms and took a step back, looked me up and down one last time and walked away. I turned to the the campus and realized that 24 hours ago I was scared of what would happen when i moved away and now i'm not scared anymore i am a person that has life goals and expectations with her whole future ahead of her, whatever that future holds i think i can conquer it with confidence. Because I am now enrolled in college, and I feel like nothing can stop me, I'm on a roll.
I always wanted to be a carpenter, I don't know why but I loved the thought of going to college and getting my own dorm with unlimited privacy. I also loved the thought of being away from my family enough for me to relax and actually have some time to breathe and to make my own decisions. But now that i think about it my family was just being protective and i don't think i am ready to move so far away just yet. my grandma still calls me "cookie Clara '', it's a name she called me when i was little. when my grandma and I would always bake cookies together after school. Then, as I was lost in thought, my mom came into the room to see if I needed help packing and she could tell that I was not ready to go. That's when she came up with an idea that we would get our van and have a mother daughter road trip all the way to Hartford college. college didn't even start for another two days, so it was perfect. When we finally got packed we put our luggage in the back of the van and we set off on our most wild journey ever.....
At that moment, as I was in the van with my mother, I felt so happy. At this moment I looked out the window to see a beautiful view of a huge open field with deer eating grass and with mountains so green they looked blue, with no worries or doubts in my mind knowing I had my whole future ahead of me… We eventually had to stop at a convenience store to get gas for our car and some food. My mom always calls them ‘road snacks’ . It makes me laugh everytime she calls them that. When we got back in the car my mom told me something that I didn't believe was coming out of her mouth. In summary she said that she was happy I was going to college and that she was proud of how I want to live my life, she even said that she admires the expectations I set for myself. I don't know why but I felt accomplished when she said this, I think I even felt complete.
We did get into some challenges along the way though. About a third of the way there it started to downpour and we saw thunder and lightning so we had to pull over to a rest area and wait out the storm. Thank god that my mom plans for these things. She brought some board games for us to play so we wouldn't get bored. We first played monopoly, after that we played go fish and uno. It was really fun. Then we put the games away, we got out the blankets and set up the bed. As we were doing this we started talking about boys. I don't know how but we got into some things that we never knew about each other. It felt so refreshing to have a good conversation with my mom without fighting. I think at that moment we began to see each other in a different way, we didn't see each other as mother and daughter, we saw each other as friends, I think I could even say that we saw each other as best friends.
It was the next morning and we woke up to a surprise… The storm had caused us to have an oil leak and I forgot to turn off the car so the battery was completely dead. So when we had finished breakfast we had to walk to a strange town called “mystic falls” and buy a new battery and get a tow truck to pick up the van that's just outside of town. When we got our van into the auto shop it took an hour and a half to fix it because they were super busy. While we waited we walked across the street to a cafe, when we got inside the smell of coffee and pie swept past my nose as i sat down at the nearest table, it felt as though i had been here before but the feeling of new sightings still was in my mind as i looked around the whole room. We spent the afternoon there, sitting at table four lost in a deep mother daughter conversation. Around 12:30 in the afternoon my mom got a call saying that our car was done being fixed so we quickly left to get back on our road trip.
It had been a couple more hours and we had finally arrived at the college. At this moment I had a mixture of feelings swarming around in my heart along with thousands of questions to follow. It was almost overwhelming how many questions I had, how many feelings I had to follow, how big the campus was and how it felt like thousands of people all in one place at the same time. We parked the car and got all of my stuff out of the car and my dorm room. It was around 5:00PM and that meant that it was time for the parents to go. This was the hard part, leaving your mom. The person who raised you and talked about boys with you, then having to be separated from this person is unbearable. As we held each other in our arms my mom pulled me tight into a hug. Then my mother whispered into my ear “everything will be alright, you will do great here, i am very proud of you” when i heard this all my worries went away and i felt a mixture of emotions, and i felt a single tear roll down my cheek. My mom then strayed away from the grasp of my arms and took a step back, looked me up and down one last time and walked away. I turned to the the campus and realized that 24 hours ago I was scared of what would happen when i moved away and now i'm not scared anymore i am a person that has life goals and expectations with her whole future ahead of her, whatever that future holds i think i can conquer it with confidence. Because I am now enrolled in college, and I feel like nothing can stop me, I'm on a roll.
Comments
Log in or register to post comments.