College Pt. II

In my last post, I talked about my sisters and their respective college situations. The main points I focused on were the homesickness my sisters felt and how that affected me. Speaking more about college, I want to talk more about how college life has affected me and my responsibilities to my families. 

     My adoptive mother travels nearly every weekday. Everywhere from Texas to Canada to California, she is gone most of the week. Her son Kevin and I have the most responsibility for taking care of the house while she's gone. We make sure dinner is ready for Karly and Kyle, the younger siblings, and that they do their homework.  We also make sure Kyle gets to lacrosse practice and that Karly gets to swimming practice. His grandmother Gaga takes care of the grocery shopping, though she is getting too old to consistently drive and do that, so Kevin and I have begun to take charge of that as well. We also have a dog and three cats, so taking care of pet food and uh, "business". Add a college workload to that and you have a recipe for a full plate of things to do for the week.

     This has given me a few things aside from a headache, and I think the biggest thing it has given me is a wider skill set for actual living. Being only 19, it's really nice to be getting a feel of what actual life is like, in the sense of going grocery shopping and doing housework and the like. I have fixed my share of toilets and washed my share of stains this past semester and a half. Being so busy makes it hard to get find time for a job and keeping money is more of a challenge with gas and personal amenities It's hard to find a perfect solution to everything, but working hard and looking out for family has been more important lately.