Tomorrow (Bryn)

I have really been looking forward to going to the Gateway Mall and Walmart! I have so many things to get, but I haven't found any time to put aside. Tomorrow I am finally going to go! At Walmart, I'm going to get some groceries, and little things, like sports bras, and yarn to crochet scarves! At Gateway, I'm going to get some undershirts, a really cute brown shirt to match this new wool wrap my aunt sent me, and possibly some jeans. I have to write out a list of things tonight so I am sure of what to get.
I have begun to feel like Salt Lake is becoming more of a home to me than it was when I first arrived. I am starting to pinpoint streets and their names, navigate, and remember landmarks more easily. It's interesting to me how I have begun to go to Smith's like it's the local grocery store in my hometown. It no longer has a new, unfamiliar feel. Gateway and Walmart are the same things. Gateway is the mall I shop at now, not the Boise Towne Square. I'm realizing how familiar I am getting with the city. There is so much more to learn, but I feel completely normal going to Smith's or Walmart or Gateway. When I first moved here, everything still appeared foreign, but I'm happy things are no longer feeling that way for me. I know where all my favorite stores are in Gateway: Express is on the lower level, while Pac Sun is on the upper, etc.
I am amazed that each place I have lived has felt like home after some time, yet never the same as the other. For instance, Pennsylvania doesn't at feel like Idaho, but I recognize different parts of each as my home. Now, Salt Lake is beginning to mold into a home to me, too. I know that eventually I will probably end up somewhere else, and that place, too, will become home to me in some other way. In each I have and will change, and I will have memories unique to each location. In one place, I remember my childhood. In another, I remember my adolescence. In another, I will now remember my undergraduate college years. The cycle is endless.