Trip to GA

Trip to GA

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I graduated from high school June 6th 2003 and decided to go to American Intercontinental University a college in Atlanta GA. I got there in August and I was so alone. I just had moved to another state, in an apartment alone with no phone, no internet, no car, no direction of where nothing was, and I knew no one!! I cried because I was so lonely even begged my parents to come back and get me. It did no good so the first person I met was my neighbor while sitting outside on the steps when she asked me if I wanted to go to church. I was glad to do anything at the moment! I went to two churches with her that day and met lots of people. Mostly the only people I knew the entire time I was there. I wanted to go home so bad it seemed that the days got worse and worse/. I decided to get a job at Babies R Us after Christmas break. Did I mention when I came home on Christmas break is when I found my husband while cruising town. Anyway between school 4 hours a day and work 8 hours a day and home work the remainder of the day I had my schedule jammed. Not to mention my cell phone attached to my ear the entire time 24/7. I AM NOT RACIST!!!! I lived with all black people, worked with all black people, and went to school with all black people. That was an entire change from back home where I had only saw like 1 or 2 black people my entire life! I was scared a little bit because I didn't know how black people were. They have a TOTALLY different lifestyle than white people!! But I admire them. I remember this one day I opened a can of deer meat to cook from back home and my roomates ran outside puking. They had never smelt that smell before. It was a good way to clear the house!! I got used to the fact of being there after a while but I was always home sick I guess the biggest reason was because I had no means of transportation of my own. I had a car but I left it back home which was a good thing with all the road rage I had even just walking. On my way to wo

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