Rhode Island is the state that has it all: beaches, shopping
centers, restaurants, cities, farms, and ski slopes. This is true to my
hometown: Warwick. I was, like most Rhode Islanders, born in Providence at
Women and Infant’s Hospital. I was brought home to my house in Warwick and have
lived there ever since. Warwick, in my opinion has everything: restaurants,
parks, shopping centers, and the beach. With all these activities I never
strayed far from Warwick except to go to high school in East Providence and a
few family vacations, but not an extended time, until I attended college. Even
though I attend the University of Rhode Island, the move was a changing
experience, but I have to say the realization of leaving my home didn’t happen
until approximately two and a half weeks ago when I moved out of my home in
Warwick to my home in Bonnet Shores.
I remembered packing up my car like I’ve done in the past
three years to head down to school but this year was different. Instead of
moving into a dorm or my sorority house like I had in the past I pulled up to a
three-story white beach house that would, for the next eight months, be mine.
My parents followed in a car behind me to see my house for the first time as
well as bringing some of my things with them. As my parents moved me in, it
still hadn’t hit me. It wasn’t until I moved in completely and stood at my
front door waving to them as they drove off when it hit me. This was my new
home. That for the next eight months this would be the place I would call home.
Instead of saying I’m going back to my dorm after class, I now say I’m going
home. Not my home in Warwick, but instead my home in Bonnet.
To date, I have not been back to my parents’ home, as I now
have to call it. I have had to do my own grocery shopping, clean my house, make
my own food, and buy my own personal items that normally my mother would have
bought for me. This move has helped me evolve into an adult in some respects. I
know take care of myself without any help from the people who have been my caregivers
for twenty years. Although, I have become an adult in my new home in Bonnet, I
owe my values and ability to grow up successfully to my home in Warwick.
