Rough Week but Fall break is right around the Corner

This week has been one of those weeks where it feels like the whole world is coming down on top of me. If I didn`t have the support of my family I don`t know if I would make it here. My classes seem so hard, and I never get a break in any of them. I know I`m going to make through this semester but I wish would just get a little easier. To be honest if I didn`t have my grandmother I probably would thrown in the towel by now. She calls and talks to me all the time. When I`m ready to quite and get out of here, she always pulls me back and assures me that I am going to make it. My parents also have been great about my transition to college life. Although I am fixing to be twenty, I still admit that I am a momma`s boy. I`m not going to lie: I miss my mom so much. Whenever I get to see her, it seems like all my problems go away, and I know everything is going to be alright. I can`t wait for fall break when I get to go back home finally and see everybody. I`ll get to see my friends I haven`t seen in months and most importantly my family. My family is very special to me and any chance I get to see them I am going to take. If I have learned anything since I moved up here, it is that I`m kind of a homebody. The expression, "Home is where the heart is," says it all.

My family came up for the football game this weekend. I really enjoyed seeing them it seems like I never get to see my family anymore. Although they are only here for a few short hours does me good to see them. It gives me piece of mind to see them doing well. Also, other things to look forward to this week is my psychology exam. I just love sitting in my dorm studying for it all weekend. I feel like it was what I was meant to do. Just a little sarcasm for everyone. Sometimes I have to insert a little humor every once in a while to keep myself going. That`s one of the strategies I`ve developed since I have been here. I tend to joke about everything. I guess it helps me keep my sanity. Well I look forward to talking again real soon and for everyone who feels like there is too much going on in there life, just pop a joke every once in a while

This Week

This last week in English has been really interesting for me. I`ve never had an English class where we got to watch movies or movie trailers of really cool movies. Before this class I never would stop and really think about all the symbolism and rhetoric that goes into creating not just visual works of art but literary works as well. Although, I had never before seen some of the movies that we watched the trailers, I still feel I got a lot out of the discussion we had in class on them. I never before realized how a simple song, type of lighting, or simply a sequence of images from a movie could influence me so much. Especially the background music that we found in Lord of the Rings as well as the movie that depicted drug addiction in the most violent of fashions. Its weird how we associated certain sounds and images to particular events or actions.

Also this week, we received our topics for our next paper. I`m not really sure how to do it but I`m going to try and turn something decent in on Thursday. My week is packed, though, I`ve got exams this next week and finding time to right six pages is going to tough. I hope I have some spark of inspiration and it all comes together. Oh, well at least this is just the rough draft and maybe between now and the final due date I`ll have an "A" paper.