Alicia, the naive girl.

Freshman day!

I recline down besides my bed and my bags that I've been packing for the past 40 minutes and I can't imagine I'm officially joining college today!

I don't know if it's dumb but I usually feel nervous whenever I'm going to a new place. The new place I'm moving to is Newyork City College and hostels.

What's funny is that I always fantasised going there whenever I watched step up the first episode. I'm sorry to say this, but I've watched that episode like a thousand times and for some reason I don't get tired of it!

I know it's lame but that's me!
I can watch something over and overagain without tiring as long as I have liked it.

I guess it's my love for dance that made me get obsessed with that movie although I gotta admit I'm not the best dancer😄.

Still lost in thoughts of how I will have to adapt to a new environment. Anyways my mind got a plan for me, it sounds abit ridiculous but this is what I usually do when I'm nervous.

I take  in a deep breath and pray. "Dear God give me the ability to adapt to the new environment at campus and give me a good roommate. "

You might be wondering, yes I'm that girl who takes prayer seriously. It has become a life style given that my family has a Christian based- foundation. Aww I like how that sounds.

Yes I'm not your religious typical girl but I'm that girl who even wakes up at 5am to pray before I start off a day.

A knock on my door and it's followed by a push. It's my mother. She walks in, "Alicia, are you still going or you changed your mind."

I guess she is staring at a girl on the ground who seems to have changed plans. With the way I'm seated down, it's like I'm thinking twice on this whole journey thing.

My mom stretches her hand to me and helps me up. "C'mon get your stuff done and we go."

She helps me pull out my luggages and my brother as well. My brother is called Jackson Colwell. And he seems abit sad about my departure coz he will get a bit bored with my absence. We usually play together when he is not at his best friend's house, Johnson.

Johnson and Jackson have been knowing each other since elementary school. They never seem to remember the time they have lived away from each other.

We stay with only our mother, our father stays in California because of work. He's a hotel manager and he never gets time for us. He's always busy with his work though he oftenly checks out on us when he gets free time.

He's a tough man and my mother as well, sometimes I even wonder how they met each other and who started who 😀 with the way they get so serious with life.

We finish putting all the bags in the boot and set off.

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We get to see the buildings of NYC, they're so beautiful.  A frenchman would say, c'est magnifique! We go beyond and soon pull into the parking yard of the dormitories.

Nervousness is taking a toll on me! All I see is girls and boys striding along the streets. Will I  ever fit in here? Girls are hot and boys are something else better than cool!

Will I manage life here? It looks like it's for the one who knows how to live and I don't think I'm way good at that.

My mom just before signing for rooms, she had wanted me to be commuting but I had declined to that wish. Coz I wanted to be a normal kid and experience what others go through.  She had said it's not safe for me. Our home is just a few metres away so commuting wouldn't be a problem.

I'm starting to think that what my mom suggested could have been better. But I know it's fear in my mind that comes with new places.

Alicia you gotta do this for you. You need to explore not being locked up ever. You need to see what the world is. My mind does all the convincing. 

We move into the custodian's office and she informs us that unfortunately we have to wait for my roommate to come so that I take in my stuff because my room has only one key due to the last occupants losing the spare one.

So this means now waiting for some stranger girl! I wonder what she looks like!

My mom being unable to wait any longer with her punctual life. She leaves me there with bags all around me puzzled in a new area.

She got no mercy, sometimes I wonder if my own mother is human! She got no plans for sympathy. She drives off after warning me to be serious with books and get some good grades.

Sometimes I feel like my mother is so serious with life!

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