Graduation

I’ve been an official college graduate for 2 days now and it’s really weird. I still can’t actually believe that it happened. I know that I walked through the stadium, turned my tassle from right to left, and shook the dean’s hand as I recieved my “diploma”, but it’s really weird. I keep thinking that I’m going to be heading back there in August.

The hardest part about leaving school though, was saying “See ya later” to all of my friends. Many of these friends are also sisters or roomates and they are hard to leave. Those ladies have touched my life in so many ways that I can’t bear to think that I’m not going to see them for a while. My family is awesome, they helped me load the 3 cars that we had with my stuff and then we had to say “see ya later” to my roomate. That was probably one of the hardest “See ya laters” that I’ve ever done. There is only 1 other that comes close to it. Grandma and I got into the car and started off to ihop and the tears started rolling down my face, it was one of those moments where you knew that you couldn’t look back because it was only going to make it worse. I pulled myself together before exiting the car at the restaurant and was expecting to get a table right away but there was a wait and that was not what my emotions needed.

Grandma was making me mad at this point because she kept on saying how I’ll have wonderful memories and that  I’ll see a lot of these friends soon, but that wasn’t what I wanted to hear. I started crying all over again right outside of ihop. Now mind you this is Mother’s Day morning and the day after Graduation so there are people all over the place. My mom pulls me into an embrace and I just loose it right then and there. I feel like my heart has been pulled out of my chest. I’m not ready to move on is what I keep thinking, why do I have to grow up right now. I’ve been looking forward to gradutation all year and I couldn’t wait to get out of Harrisonburg and back home with my friends, but I didn’t want to leave my JMU friends either. Finally grandma stops talking and we get a table and have breakfast.

God knew that I would be a mess all the way home, so He had some interesting plans to take my mind off of the situation at hand. I actually almost get into a car accident and I end up blowing out 2 tires 6 miles away from school. I can’t describe it any other way than than God had His mighty hand on my car and was guiding it all the way through the fish tailing, because I didn’t hit anyone. I covered almost the entire stretch of highway and I was almost perpendicular to it at one point. He kept both Grandma and I safe, and I couldn’t stop thanking Him for that. Well, that made me stop crying about leaving and start thinking about how the car was going to get fixed on a Sunday in the South. He had plans for that too and soon Dad and I were back on the road.

What a crazy Graduation weekend! Something crazy has always happened the day that I’m suppose to come home. Freshman year the dog started having seizures. Sophomore year a friend was in need. Junior year mom broke her wrist. Senior year, I nearly get into a car accident and blow out two tires. Besides that I’ve had a realatively great experience at school.

The next chapter of my life begins now. It starts off with a pretty sweet internship, so stay tuned to see how God continues to work in my life!

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