Leaving Town

Artist: Dexter Freebish
Song: Leaving Town
Lyric: "The world is your playground."

This is it. The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. It's true when they say that when one door closes-- another opens. I'm getting ready to pack up room at 15 fraternity row and it's hard to say what it's like. All I've known the past three years is this house and the people that make it up. More than anything the people that have gone in and out the front door are the ones that I have the most memories with. The ones who have chanted my name during power hours, carried me up the stares when past out from drinking and thought about naked ninja me and Laura. So now that I'm leaving all of that behind-- I can't say that I won't miss it. You really don't realize how much you're leaving behind until you're forced to pack your shit and get out, say your goodbyes and hit the road. I will miss hearing the skateboard roll down the hall late into the night, the tampering with the thermostat for just the right room temperature, the familiar stench of pot as you walk down the hall, dinner time when everyone in the house for the most part sat together and Pi Lam really felt like a fraternity. If I could live in these conditions... I can pretty much handle anything London has in store for me. The hostels won't be so bad.

I'm looking forward to the adventure I'm about to embark on. I can't say that I'm sad nor excited, but comfortable with the idea of going abroad. I know the experience will open my eyes to things that Gainesville could never teach me about the world or myself. It is however hard to leave behind the people who have given me ridiculous memories and left me with hundreds of pictures to look back at.

It's been fun, but I'm ready for something new.