This is my blog for University Writing 20-- Women's Lives.
I'm a freshman, living in Thurston Hall, room 229.
I'm originally from Allentown, PA which is part of the Lehigh Valley--the third most populated metropolitan area in PA after Philly and Pittsburgh.
My parents moved to the U.S. from India about 23 years ago and I've visited there four times and speak fluently in Bengali. Most of my extended family lives there, which is sad because in Indian culture you consider your cousins, regardless of how distantly they may really be related, to be like your own siblings. But anyway, I do have two sisters. One will be 23 soon and the other is 9 so I'm the middle child. I miss my little sister, more than anything and I hate that I can't see her whenever I want to. Although I have an amazing relationship with my older sister, she still has her own life apart from me, but my little sister's life and my life kind of revolved around each other. I watched her after school every day since I was in sixth grade. I picked her up from the bus stop, took her home, gave her her snack, made her do her homework and played with her until it was time for her to shower and go to bed. I made her practice piano and took her to ballet, and she often hung out with me and my friends. My guy friends enjoyed playing catch with her--literally, _she_ was the ball and my boyfriend and I would also take her out pretty regularly, despite the dirty looks we would get from people who thought she was our daughter. It's been really hard to know that she's kind of by herself now, but it's something we'll both have to get used to. She's an amazingly smart and talented girl and she'll be able to adjust.
Aside from missing all my friends and my sisters, I've been loving my life in DC. I have three room mates and I get along with all of them and we can steal everything from each other so my wardrobe has basically quadrupled in size which would make any girl happy. I love that I can walk to the right of my dorm and wind up at the White House and that if I want, I can study by the monuments. I am completely in love with gdubssss :)
