Skid Kid (Freshman edition)

Here's the setting, for those of you who dont know, which is probably no one cause who is reading this besides the 7 people i've told about it, but anywho.
Saratoga Springs, NY- upstate NY, where i'm pretty sure the "fall foliage" people in Florida and Figi here and dream about was discovered. Literally never seen anything like this, of course its post-peak and the trees are pretty much bare now and the snow is a comin, but just a few weeks ago you walked outside your small dirty- well atleast my- to see what could easily be a painting turned 3D. From purple to yellow to red to orange all tye-dyed together to create a surreal collage. The only bad part is that they've come and gone before you know it.
Anywho the trees are just one example of something I knew woukld be here, but not the extent of awesomeness about.
The main point of this whole thing is too say that I am OBSESSED with this place. Everyday im re-blown away by how incredible everything about it is. I know I sound like some over-dramatic high-school cheerleader, but its so true. I knew I really loved it, but I believe it was 2 fridays ago when driving back from the movie theater that it hit me. Every since I got here, I have been extra-grateful and appreciative for how awesome my life is. While I know and believe how lucky I am, its a weird thing to say outloud, especially at the beginning of college when you are meeting all new people who come from all sorts of backgrounds. So with my new found appreciation fro life, I have found myself getting happier and happier, like literally even when im a little sad, im still so happy. I am in love with everything about this school, town, people here, everything. After seven years in a bubble of a high school with majority of gossip girl wanna-be's and only a handful of real people, and then really only five people who exceed any expectation I have ever had of a "best-friend", it is nice to find that the statistics are a bit different here. Everyone is a real person, down-to-earth is no longer a quality I look for in people, it is something I know is in every friend I have made.
I am most happy that i am at someplace I really feel at home. I belong here, and I just feel lucky to have found it.
Let's check back next year....