Queen Blog

I can admit that my first semester could've gone way better. I found myself getting very distracted. I even started to give up on school I lost motivation, fell into depression even got my feelings hurt by a boy. With this being my first time away from home and very far away at that I started thinking and getting very sad and crying almost every day. I felt like I had no one I started doing things out of my character. no one knew about my behavior change except my boyfriend back home and he ended telling my older brother, that didn't do much because I'm far away from home and don't have to listen to anyone really. But this first semester has really been an eye-opener I continue to learn something new about myself.

Homecoming week for me was different and something new that is going to take some getting used to. I believe my homecoming experience could've been better. only because the majority of the people I hang out with at this school are upperclassmen and already had the experience to enjoy homecoming so now it's boring to them and they didn't want to participate in events the campus had to offer. We spent our homecoming partying and being too tired for classes which screwed me mostly they are used to doing this type of thing staying out all night and waking up for class early in the morning. With me being a freshman I now understand why it's influenced that you don't try to be at every party.

I have been here at Virginia State for a month and two weeks, and still haven't adapted to the culture. I miss my home because I know how everything works and I know what to do and not to do. Here is like a foreign place I don't know anyone or anything around here, but that is what is helping me grow and build my character as a person going out and exploring new things stepping out of my comfort zone. Being away from what makes me most comfortable has been an emotional journey for me my mom, my boyfriend, my brothers, aunt, and my friends. most people here walk around on this campus comfortably because they know each other from back home or they literally live 20 minutes away. I hear everyone say how excited they are to go home for the weekends and I would love to go home for the weekend but I wouldn't be able to spend much time with them my time would be spent on the plane given I basically live across the country. But there are people on this campus that have helped me th...

Hello, my name is Queen Johnson. I was named after my great grandmother (moms idea) my father wanted to name me Rosiana because of his gang affiliated name, Rob Rossi. My mom didn't want me to be apart of that lifestyle. But as I got older she failed to realize there's only so much she can really keep me from. I have the typical steroetype black child story "grew up without a father, mom was a single mother of three children and we all had different fathers". but that story doesn't define me as a person there's a lot more to me. I've faced a lot of challenges and obstacles in life, that I've just had to sit back and thank god that I was still alive.