Hello my name is Natalie.

So I decided to start this blog because I was bored. But then I started thinking that this would be my internet journal. Well I guess I can tell you a little about myself. My name is Natalie Michele Locke, I'm 21 years old and I'm living and going to school in Denton, Tx. I'm and education major and I'm really excited about becoming a teacher and teaching the young little minds. I have a boyfriend named Nathan, we have been together off and on throughout high school and since our senior year we have been together for 4 years. He is going into the Navy going into the nuclear program. He is set to ship out April 10th but has requested to leave earlier. This is the first time we have really been apart from each other for this long amount of time, and things have been going good so far. When I graduated I went to Blinn College in Brenham, Tx. I was only 3 hours away and came home every weekend so it really wasn't any distances because we saw each other every weekend. Since then I moved back home and went to the community college that was 30 mins from my parents house. So for almost 3 years I was living back at home seeing Nathan almost everyday. It got to the point were I couldn't live at home anymore, I was tired of being treated like a kid still in high school with a curfew. I was ready to live on my own away from my parents, I was ready to make my own decisions and do what I want. So I applied to the University of North Texas in Denton, Tx. I have friends that live here and came to visit to see if I liked it,  and then I got accepted and started making plans to move up here. I've been up here for 2 months and I have to admit I like it but I'm not in love with it. When I was choosing colleges while I was in high school I always wanted to go to Texas State in San Marcos, Tx, but it just never happend I made a bad choose in only applying to one university which yes I know what was I thinking. I didn't even get into the university I applied for. Anyway I was talking to my best friend Laurin and was telling her my problems with Denton and why I didn't feel like I belonged here. Yea I've only been living here 2 months but there is just something inside telling me its not where I belong. I told her that I regretted nothing finishing my application to Texas State that I really wish I was there instead of where I am now. Then she just said do it. Move to San Marcos or Austin. I had told myself that I was going to stay here until I got my degree because I was tired of jumping from school to school and of course I felt lame that I wasn't about to be done with school. Then I started thinking about it why not, why couldn't I move to Austin and live and go to school there. I mean I'm only 21 I don't have anything holding me back. The only thing I'm worried about is finding a nice cheap place to live, how im going to pay for school, and how my parents are going to feel. Thats the one thing I'm the most worried about they just moved me up here and a year later I want to move again. My thing is I want to be happy in the place that I'm in, and if I'm not then why would I stay here. I'm in love with Austin, I love everything about it. The feeling of everything and everyone is amazing. Austin is a big outdoors town and I love that. The last time I was in Austin I went kayaking and feel in love. It was an awesome work out and going down the river looking at the nature and Austin was so relaxing. I love the night life, and really most of all the traditions at University of Texas. I use to play softball which was most of my life from the age of 9-18 years old. I remember one time we got tickets to a UT softball game and then after the game was a camp with the UT players. As I sat there watching them play I told my dad that one day I wanted to come back here and play softball and go to UT. Of course I didn't make it there and I stopped playing softball. But I have always loved the city and have always wanted to live there. So I'm hoping that everything will work out and I will get to live there with my girlfriends which I think would be awesome to live with. Well I think thats all for now. I like this though. I haven't written down the things I feel in awhile. This will be nice and will help me think things out. Who knows if anyone will ever read this but if someone does I hope you enjoy it.

Natalie