Home is where the Heart is...

Today i am really homesick... more than i have ever been since i ever came to Miami. I cried for the first time after leaving Jersey. School has been keeping so busy that i don't even have time to miss home like i normally would. the highlights of my first month in Miami include:

-Dinner and dancing at Martini bar. first time spent with my new friends. had a really nice relaxing night.
-biochem/physio/immuno quizzes suck the very life out of me
-late nights studying and early mornings make for a very tired nandita
-a merp bday gone wrong. stretch hummer limo. miami. sleep.
-dinner at bubba gump. mansion afterwards. =)
-Indian food in coral gables last night.... felt so good after so long
-trying to eat healthy, but i find myself straying in times of stress
-miss my friends, never able to appreciate there greatness till i was away from them... good friends are more valuable than gold.
-i miss my car... it would make life alot easier.
-apartment is a task... cooking, cleaning, laundry...
-learning to be independent
-school is a challenge but i am liking it. first major exam coming up this wednesday...mini 1.... quite stressed... trying to keep calm. i just really need this! but i have faith in not only god, but my own abilties. i have to, there is no other way i will get through this. As ruben studdard once sang, "As impossible as it may seem, you have to fight for every dream, because whose to know, which one you let go, would have made you complete?" i am going to fight, because this dream is worth it, because i am worth it! back to studying... feeling alot better!!!

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