A year ago today we were in California. We drove down there for spring break to of course get out of Utah and enjoy the beautiful weather, but also to check out an Optometry school that both of us REALLY wanted Steve to get in to. I had pretty much been trying to convince Steve that California was the place to go for Optometry school since we started dating, and I knew that if I could just get him there for a week long spring break trip, he would be sold on the idea. So we got to California, hit up the beach and Disneyland, and then visited SCCO. We toured the school and met with the dean of admissions. (She of course was trying to convince Steve that SCCO was the place to go to school as well.)
After a week full of sunshine, relaxation, and fun, Steve admitted to me on our drive back to Utah that my plan had worked and he really wanted to go to Optometry school in California. YAHOO!
Well......when interview time came around, we found ourselves in Memphis Tennessee checking out a completely different school, on the complete OPPOSITE side of the country from California! Then to make things worse.....Steve got in to BOTH schools! Now i know that everybody already knows that we have decided to go to Tennessee for school and I'm not complaining......(well maybe I am a little bit) because I really am SO grateful that he got accepted. But lately.....I've been realizing how hard living thousands of miles away from our families is really going to be.
Everyone keeps asking me if I'm getting excited to move to Tennessee and when I reply, "Well....no not really.", they are surprised with my answer. I was talking to my mom on the phone last night and she was telling me that I needed to be positive and that before we know it, we would be moving back to Utah. I know she is right, and so I really am trying to have a positive attitude about the whole situation, but I'm having a hard time with it. And it is not that I think moving to California would be any easier, because I would still be really far away from family, and we will be too poor to come home from wherever we would be living, BUT California is only 2 states away from Utah instead of 5! Oh well.....such is life....right?! On the bright side of things, we won't be in nearly as much debt when we get done with school in Memphis as we would have been if we had decided to go to California:)
You guys will do great in Tennessee, no worries! It's nice to have the church be the same everywhere you go, so you know you'll always have that support system while you're there. But, we will miss you guys a ton!
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