My New Home!

After spending two years in little bitty, Park Hills, Missouri, I finally graduated and was looking for a new place to live. I made my decision and picked Memphis, Tennessee. I spent all summer nervous about moving to the second most dangerous city in the U.S. Yesterday, I packed my car of some of my stuff and headed down south. I made it to the great city at 11 and headed to the University of Memphis to speak to my busy, busy advisor. After speaking to the wild man, I drove over to my sisters apartment and spent the rest of the day with my sister and her daughter and baby boy. We had fun and went and had some McDonald's, which was yummy. That night, my sister mentioned that my windows in my car were down and to remember to roll them up. Around 1, I finally became tired and realized that I still needed to roll up my windows. So I grabbed my keys and my pepper spray and headed to my car. While I was at my car I got a pillow and a blanket that was packed in my car. I locked my car and headed back to the house. I reached the door and found that it was locked, so I got out my keys and used the key that my sister and her husband made for me. After trying the key about a million times I finally came to terms that it wouldn't work. So I went to plan B, I banged on the door for about 10 minutes, and I finally decided that no one was going to let me in.

I didn't want to go knock on my sister window because I didn't want to wake the baby and I know that I would have made my sister mad and she sleeps so heavy I didn't know if she would even wake up. So I headed back to my car. I now know that trying to sleep in a car when you are 6'3", it's not easy or comfortable. I believe I finally fell asleep around 2 and all I remember after that is I heard a knock on my window. It was my brother-in-law looking very confused. I struggled out of the car and he asked me what happened and why I was sleeping in my car. He let me back in the house and I crashed on the couch.

My first night in Memphis and I experienced how it felt to be homeless, just in case something should happen. So hopefully this is the worst for awhile. I'm still excited about living here and experiencing new and exciting things.