Where has the time gone? Every time I find myself back here, so much has happened, so much has changed, but I always end up right here on my blog.
The last six months might have been the craziest months of my life. I spent 2.5 months in Cape Town, South Africa, where I have made SO many memories! There isn't a day that goes by where my brain doesn't decide to take me back to something that happened while I was on exchange. Not only do I miss how gorgeous Cape Town was, I miss my school and my friends so so much. It didn't make it any easier when I had to go right back from paradise to "The Nunnery", where palm trees, beaches, and sunsets were traded for books, acne, and Oreo's. The last few months at school were tough. I had completely adapted to the African pace of life, and enjoyed taking it easy and being worry-free (well.. who doesn't love that?!). However, that's not how the people around me were living. I found myself back at school, sleeping through assemblies (and receiving far too many detention slips in my mailbox), forgetting (sometimes PURPOSELY forgetting) to hand in homework assignments, losing my drive to push through two hours of sports everyday, and drowning in this crazy world without trying to swim.
I had fallen in love with my new life that I had established so well. I loved the new, happier, bubblier "Laura", the Laura that wasn't afraid of consequences and lived life the right way, the happy way.
I did not miss the studious, serious girl I had once been. The girl whose highlight of the week was a banana chocolate chip muffin, and who cringed at the thought of what would happen if she broke a rule at school (because let me tell you, I had already been there and suffered the consequences).
I hated having to throw my new life away away and having to box it all up as a good memory of a time that I wish I could relive over and over again.
That was when I realized that I needed to change something about my real life. I needed to find a happy medium between how I was in South Africa, and how I was at home. After thinking and thinking, I figured out what the problem was: my school.
If you have followed my blog from the beginning, you will have read through some of my funny and more serious chronicles as a student at an all-girls prep school full of wacky traditions and interesting people. This school has made me into the person who I am now, but at a certain point it stopped providing me with opportunities for more growth. The strict rules and regulations are something I don't need anymore. I know how to accomplish my dreams, but now I just need to be set free. I need to find a new place that would be able to turn me back into happy AND studious Laura: the Laura that was a little 5-foot-tall freshman with braces that entered boarding school with high hopes, expectations, and dreams. But let's leave out the braces, and I kinda like being 5'7 now.
So here I am, completely changing things up. I am going to a slightly larger co-ed private school where I will be day student. And I can't wait to write about all the crazy things that will happen there.
In the meanwhile... I will be posting on here a lot more.
By the way, I'm working on a novel!
XOXO Laura
The last six months might have been the craziest months of my life. I spent 2.5 months in Cape Town, South Africa, where I have made SO many memories! There isn't a day that goes by where my brain doesn't decide to take me back to something that happened while I was on exchange. Not only do I miss how gorgeous Cape Town was, I miss my school and my friends so so much. It didn't make it any easier when I had to go right back from paradise to "The Nunnery", where palm trees, beaches, and sunsets were traded for books, acne, and Oreo's. The last few months at school were tough. I had completely adapted to the African pace of life, and enjoyed taking it easy and being worry-free (well.. who doesn't love that?!). However, that's not how the people around me were living. I found myself back at school, sleeping through assemblies (and receiving far too many detention slips in my mailbox), forgetting (sometimes PURPOSELY forgetting) to hand in homework assignments, losing my drive to push through two hours of sports everyday, and drowning in this crazy world without trying to swim.
I had fallen in love with my new life that I had established so well. I loved the new, happier, bubblier "Laura", the Laura that wasn't afraid of consequences and lived life the right way, the happy way.
I did not miss the studious, serious girl I had once been. The girl whose highlight of the week was a banana chocolate chip muffin, and who cringed at the thought of what would happen if she broke a rule at school (because let me tell you, I had already been there and suffered the consequences).
I hated having to throw my new life away away and having to box it all up as a good memory of a time that I wish I could relive over and over again.
That was when I realized that I needed to change something about my real life. I needed to find a happy medium between how I was in South Africa, and how I was at home. After thinking and thinking, I figured out what the problem was: my school.
If you have followed my blog from the beginning, you will have read through some of my funny and more serious chronicles as a student at an all-girls prep school full of wacky traditions and interesting people. This school has made me into the person who I am now, but at a certain point it stopped providing me with opportunities for more growth. The strict rules and regulations are something I don't need anymore. I know how to accomplish my dreams, but now I just need to be set free. I need to find a new place that would be able to turn me back into happy AND studious Laura: the Laura that was a little 5-foot-tall freshman with braces that entered boarding school with high hopes, expectations, and dreams. But let's leave out the braces, and I kinda like being 5'7 now.
So here I am, completely changing things up. I am going to a slightly larger co-ed private school where I will be day student. And I can't wait to write about all the crazy things that will happen there.
In the meanwhile... I will be posting on here a lot more.
By the way, I'm working on a novel!
XOXO Laura
