i (am//not) ready

...i am NOT ready...
to be a real life grown up
to part ways with my nursing school cohort (i'm pretty attached)
to give up my tendency to wander and travel
to pay for things like health insurance
to move out of the house i've called home for the past 3+ years
to do life without my roomies, who are more like sisters
to work 40+ hours/week
to leave behind the whimsy that college life affords
to settle down into a career, or really settle into anything
to leave, but i suppose i'm not ready to stay either

{via}

...i AM ready...
to have silverware in the silverware drawer
to quit jumping through hoops in the academic world
to say goodbye to nursing care plans
to bury my nose in a book of my choosing
to spend my time investing in things i really care about
not to be flat broke all the time
for a change of scenery, and of pace
to leave behind the college-kid diet
to live my life outside the bounds of a syllabus
to get more sleep on a regular basis
to go more than 2 weeks without my car being broken into

the here & now.

That's right, ladies & gents, we are in real time. No more of this update business. I'm in Rochester, Minnesota and am LOVING it! My program officially starts tomorrow morning, so I've just been getting settled and finding my way around this beautiful place. Here's a little list of the highs/lows so far...

{highs}
- lovely little chats with a sweet old lady on the airplane.
- meeting my new roommates... there's 6 of us and everyone seems great!
- my off-beat (yet delightful) shuttle driver who took the liberty of showing me almost all of Rochester before finally deciding to take me to my apartment {gotta love the scenic route}.
- Our town home is bomb... we have a huge kitchen/living room and each have our own bedroom. My room is on the 3rd level and my windows face into the woods - SO incredibly beautiful.
- A fun {but expensive} adventure to Target.
- Rain and lots of it.
- The amazing running path that follows the river by my new place.
- A friendly little lama that came to visit on my run this morning {apparently there's a lama farm next door to my apartment}

{lows}
- Crazy thick Minnesota accents... I have not caught on to them just yet.
- Explaining to almost everyone I meet that there are actually people in Utah who are not polygamist/mormon.
- Learning pretty much everything there is to know about 4-H... wow.

I'll post pictures soon... Hope your summer is full of lots of adventures too!
{xo. jarah}