A Backpack?? I Carry My Textbooks in a Suitcase!
Hello and welcome to the last blog for this month! Instead of a blog about one of my songs or videos, this blog will be about one of my college memories.
Back when I was in my first year of college, I couldn't make up my mind over whether I liked carrying my textbooks in a side bag while walking through campus or using an actual backpack. On one hand, my shoulder would get sore from carrying everything on one side. On the other hand, my whole back would hurt if I carried too much in a backpack. In the Fall semester of 2019, I had more textbooks than I could stand to carry. About halfway through the semester, I just got so sick of carrying them that I decided that I would put my textbooks in a carry-on suitcase with wheels. That was the best decision I made for that school semester, and I have a lot of funny memories to look back on because of it.
For example, I would often ride the bus in town to get from school to work and vice versa. This caused people to turn to me and ask if I was going to the airport to catch a flight! One time I was caught off guard to hear a much more unique question from one of the bus drivers. “Are you going bowling? That thing is big enough to carry a bowling ball!”
Though it had the length and width that a bowling ball could fit into, I didn’t ever put a bowling ball in it. But he had a good point. It was big enough that it was sometimes hard to keep it in certain places. For example, my workplace had lockers for us to put our valuable things in. I usually would come to work after classes and… well the lockers weren’t big enough to hold a carry-on suitcase. If anything, I could probably fit a bag or small backpack in it…😂 I can’t help it if I have too many textbooks! Thankfully, there were kind work leaders there that let me put my suitcase in their office.
Similarly, I would often need to keep it close to my legs during class so that I wouldn’t trip someone going down the aisle of chairs and desks. Eventually I decided to leave the suitcase in a safe hiding place in the music building and just bring the essential textbooks and notebooks I needed for a class until I would come back to that hiding place. By the time I graduated I had three hiding places. The music building felt safe. It was as if I was just leaving my stuff in a car. This trust probably had a lot to do with the fact that I knew most of the people who would come into the building and just the overall atmosphere of the place. Not to mention that the suitcase was black and could hide well in the dark.
The hiding place that I used the most to hide it in was also one of my favorite places to do homework, take naps, and eat my lunch. Speaking of lunches, this suitcase was the perfect size for me to have my lunch bag on top of. I would just put the lunch bag’s straps around the extended rod of the suitcase and my lunch bag would stay on top, even when I was rolling the suitcase along.
Funny enough, after all the effort I did to help myself get around campus with a suitcase, I decided to go back to carrying a side bag or backpack during my last year of school. I didn’t have many textbooks to worry about anymore, so it wasn’t really necessary to have an entire suitcase. But I did still leave my bag in my hiding places when I didn’t need to bring all my stuff to places.
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