Messages

Kris and Ali keep getting messages (I wonder why I haven't been getting any?) from Sarah.  She goes on and on about how miserable she is at college and how she wants to come home.  How the food is terrible, and how there is nothing to do.  Then a couple hours later it'll be just the opposite.  The messages are about how she is hanging out with friends, going to the rec center to work out, or going to study at the library.  It's a little silly actually.  But I guess when you can't come home any time you want, you do get a little homesick.  Before we left I did try to encourage her to get involved with things like intramurals.  It's just a way to have some fun and meet other people.  So she did take that advice and is on a coed, intramural kickball team.  I think that is a good way to start out.  We had all sorts of fun sports to get involved in.  One of the more fun ones was inner-tube water polo.  Things like that go a long way to helping to deal with the stress of dealing with a new environment.  Hopefully the messages will start being more positive soon.