Dear Anthony,
College life is going good so far. I’m still getting used to the fact of having to live with a roommate. You know since you left I haven’t had to share or live with anybody but mom and dad and I definitely didn’t have this many females around me. Living with you and Marquis was tough but living with these girls is tougher. Staying in Asbury is making make more female friends but it’s not that bad. I just feel like sometimes me being so independent is a bad thing. I’m so used to doing things by myself that it feels weird to have to do things with 2 to 5 other girls. I mean daddy told me not to be going places by myself but sometimes I just feel like being by myself. Does that make me a bad person or will I be making myself an outcast because of the need to be by myself? On the other hand I am making friends, being friendly and trying my best to keep a smile on my face. I always just remember you telling me that if I was a mean person or had attitude I wouldn’t have any friends.
Living here in South Carolina is way different than I thought. Like, it will rain just out of nowhere. One minute it is sunny and hot then the next its hot and raining. Here it will just rain with a little lightning and thunder and you know back in Kansas that would never happen. I have never in my life, not even in Puerto Rico, felt warm rain. The rain comes out the sky warm! The people here are very nice; they just say “hi” to you when you walking by. I even got into the habit of saying “hi” to people as I walk by. So far the craziest thing about the people who live here in South Carolina is that they speak differently the farther south you go. I had no clue about this. Some girl told my roommate and I that the farther south you go the more the people speak “gee chi” some language or slang that the people from Charleston speak, but not everybody speaks it. Sometimes I just feel so rude that I have to ask some people to repeat themselves because I don’t quite catch what they say, but by the end of first semester I’ll be able to understand better, hopefully.
But all in all I like college life. I haven’t had a chance to miss mom and dad yet they call me every night after daddy gets off work. Daddy tries to act hard like he doesn’t miss me, but I know he does, I know he cried when they finally went home. I will talk to you later, or when something exciting happens.
Love,
Bri