Entry 3

Throughout life everyone experiences many problems in their lives. One problem I have experienced is moving away from home. I have never been away from home for more then a week at a time so moving away to school was difficult. Some characteristics of the problem were missing my friends and family, depression, loneliness, and just wanting to go back home. I have dealt with this problem quit well over the past few months. My friends here at school help me keep my mind off of home and keep me occupied. I play on the soccer team here and we are all like a family and help each other get through anything and they have helped me out a lot. Also just knowing that I have a great opportunity here at school is helping me get through it a lot easier as well. A barrier I have created that keeps me from addressing the problem effectively is going home often. By going home often once I come back I just want to be back at home. Whenever I am missing home I can always talk to my best friend here at school. He is always willing to help me out. A real barrier that is keeping me from addressing the issue is living 5 hours away. I can not just go home and see my friends and family on a daily basis. In order to address these barriers I am going to have to just stay as occupied here at school as I can and keep my mind off of home. I am going to need to make just as good of friends here at school as I have at home. My identity is different due to this problem because there is a weakness that can easily bring me down when I think of home. The problem effects my self-efficiency and affective skill set when i'm doing school work and get side tracked by friends at home. They call me and text me while i'm doing work and then I can not get as much work done.