The Final Countdown

The clock is down to less than ten days until I will be leaving the University of Oklahoma for the final time and returning to Iowa to continue on in life.  Looking back to when I made this decision, I was in a world of hurt and desperately wanted things to change, so I changed them.  And now as I will be leaving for good, I think about the things I'll be missing around here...

I'm going to miss this beautiful campus.  I'm going to miss the sometimes crazy but mostly wonderful weather that is Oklahoma.  I'm going to miss my few friends that I've made here at OU, some so recently as this week!  I'm going to miss the wonderful church that I've been attending recently.

But as I look at this list I have made, I see sentimentaly aspects of what I'll be missing.  I will always have the opportunity to visit Oklahoma again later on in life to fulfill some of the things I'll be missing when I leave.

As of now, it is time to look to the future.  I did give Oklahoma a good run and though I like many things about it, it's just not for me.  The longer I think about it, to more I'm really expecting myself to love and flourish at the University of Iowa.  I DO think I will enjoy nursing.  I DO want to stop being so dull in life like I have been here at OU.  I'm ready to move on from the hurting I've experienced down here and be closer to home and in a place that I actually enjoy being.

Meanwhile, I've had some very good luck and fortune in my final two weeks down here!  I'm very excited to have the opportunity to see Craig Groeschel give not one but TWO live sermons tomorrow.  I'm also excited that for the rest of the days this week, I only have one class each day; two of those days not having the class until 2:30 in the afternoon!  I've only got two finals to prepare for and then a paper to write for political science, so I feel that I will be able to finish out this semester strong.

As far as preparations for transferring to Iowa goes, everything is applied for and filled out.  Transcripts are sent.  Orientation date is set.  EMT job with Johnson County EMS has been applied for.  And I'm actually excited to make this step in my life.  I'm happy to be going to Iowa and doing something that I love to do!

Oh... and there's that letter I'm needing to write to my parents that I've been putting off.