Summer's End
I am homeschooled. So I'm not tied to the school year in a recognizable way. I don't have to panic about school starting after Labor Day.
Over the summer most of my Schooled friends and I have hung out quite a bit, which I've really enjoyed. We've Gamed, we've LARPed, we've fenced and watched movies. We've argued and laughed and celebrated each other's birthdays. We've supported each other through new loves and breakups and family problems and teenaged angst. Now, due to the impending end of Summer Break, those times will soon be over.
I'll still see my friends, but we won't be able to just hang out together as we have over the past couple months - and when we get together, most times at least one of us will be missing due to a school-related scheduling conflict.
During the summer my academic schedule let up a bit, but basically continued as usual - so I got accustomed to being the one whose schedule occasionally threw a spanner into the works, so to speak. Now the situation is changing, and mine is the schedule that seems flexible, while my friends become tied down to increasingly complex demands on their time.
This is particularly difficult for me this year. Most of my friends are a year or two older than I, and this is their last year of high school - and their last year of being Our Gang. Next fall they will be scattering all over the U.S., attending colleges in far off states where our casual Gaming sessions and fencing bouts will be just a distant memory.
I, no doubt, will make new connections. I will make new friends. I will be busy with my own concerns and my own busy schedule. I will have plenty to keep me busy and entertained.
But I'll miss them. That eventuality is starting to feel like Reality.
I'll miss them.
That's all.
Over the summer most of my Schooled friends and I have hung out quite a bit, which I've really enjoyed. We've Gamed, we've LARPed, we've fenced and watched movies. We've argued and laughed and celebrated each other's birthdays. We've supported each other through new loves and breakups and family problems and teenaged angst. Now, due to the impending end of Summer Break, those times will soon be over.
I'll still see my friends, but we won't be able to just hang out together as we have over the past couple months - and when we get together, most times at least one of us will be missing due to a school-related scheduling conflict.
During the summer my academic schedule let up a bit, but basically continued as usual - so I got accustomed to being the one whose schedule occasionally threw a spanner into the works, so to speak. Now the situation is changing, and mine is the schedule that seems flexible, while my friends become tied down to increasingly complex demands on their time.
This is particularly difficult for me this year. Most of my friends are a year or two older than I, and this is their last year of high school - and their last year of being Our Gang. Next fall they will be scattering all over the U.S., attending colleges in far off states where our casual Gaming sessions and fencing bouts will be just a distant memory.
I, no doubt, will make new connections. I will make new friends. I will be busy with my own concerns and my own busy schedule. I will have plenty to keep me busy and entertained.
But I'll miss them. That eventuality is starting to feel like Reality.
I'll miss them.
That's all.
posted by Bren at 9:08 AM
2 Comments:
Thank goodness for friends, huh? I think you'll be ok though as the chat rooms,skype and email etc are good ways to keep in touch and just think of all the great places you'll get to visit when your friends are in college.
I know it'll be hard and they will make different friends at college but that is a year or so away so make the most of the time you squeeze in now. I'm sure that you will meet other people you click with too.
It'll be a lonelier year, but maybe without people to distract you, you'll be able to focus on higher education and all, maybe you'll even end up at the same school as one of them!
I had much more fun in college than I did in high school. The kids were just so much more mature and in general "acted better" in college.
Good luck!
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