I can’t believe that I’ll be going home soon. The hands of time are not moving fast enough. I mean, I haven’t been home since the year began! What’s even worse is that almost every student has already gone home – since they’ve finished writing their exams about a week ago!

I wasn’t writing any exams. And stupid me thought that not writing exams was the coolest thing ever. I mean, what could be cooler than not writing exams? But guess what…not writing exams is not as cool as it sounds.

Exams – no matter how difficult they are – come to pass, like everything else. You write your exams and when you done you go home. Home – to family and home-cooked meals prepared with love. But, if you’re like me and you don’t write exams, you don’t just go home like everyone else.

I have an assignment to submit Friday. Just thinking about Friday makes my stomach growl. It’s too bloody far, for one! Secondly, the flats are abandoned, since most people have gone home. It is funny how I miss people I hardly know and haven’t even had a conversation with.

The girl who lives two doors away from me, the one who’s always singing and waking me up in the morning, I miss her! I’ve gotten so used to hearing her sing that my mornings are incomplete without her.

I want to go home too. My mom’s been going on and on about how she misses me and that I should come home. I mean, five months here without going home is more than I can take too. It’s been a rough semester for me! I’ve never been this far from home on my own. In fact, I’ve never lived on my own! And trust me when I say it’s not easy. You’ve got all these responsibilities of running a household competing with your schoolwork – and sometimes one gets neglected because of the other. You have to worry about what you’ll eat.

Living on your own is not as glamorous as they make it look on TV. Sure enough, you can go out and come home as late as you want and not have your parents waiting to shout at you. But when you have loads and loads of schoolwork to do, why would you even think of going out?

ZZ xx