Well, thanksgiving has just ended. My favorite holiday. It has the 4 F’s: Friends, family, food and football. What else can you ask for? You don’t have to buy gifts like christmas, have a boyfriend like valentines, have a date/midnight kiss like new years, or worry about getting bad gifts like your birthday. The only thing comparable is 4th of July which is pretty amazing too.
Anyway, I went home for thanksgiving and had an amazing time. I spent a lot of time with family and friends and relaxed. I really should’ve studied more but I didn’t. It was weird being home, but it felt great, too. Just more temporary than before. I’ve started calling my room here “home” and when I left for “home” from “home”, it was bizarre feeling. I don’t feel like I have two homes or anything, I know I come from Dallas and I live there and I’m always home when I’m there, but it’s not two at once. Home is where I’m at currently. So I’m currently at home in my dorm. And I’m home when I’m at my house. But while I’m in my dorm, my house is not my home, and while I’m in my house, my dorm is not my home. Heck, I call my hotel room home when I’m on vacation! It’s wherever I’m living/sleeping at the time. Haha I guess you could say I go where the wind blows!
I have tests/papers/projects all due this week (wednesday, thursday, and friday) and then I’m done for the semester. I have quite a few teachers anxious to go home (for example, one is Brazilian so he would like to go home sooner than later) so they made their exams just a final test and put it on our last class day so we don’t have to stick around for exam week. So I’m one of the first people to go back to Dallas for winter break and also one of the last to leave. My break will be ridiculously long. December 4th- January 18th. I’m trying to get a job to fill this and I’ve planned a vacation at the end as well.
The timing for winter break does suck a little bit. I feel like I’m ready to be done with this semester of course! But I also feel like I’ve just hit a really great rhythm here in Austin. My friendships are feeling more solid and I’m connecting more with them, just in time to leave. So I’m giving myself the challenge of hanging out with people a lot before I leave, while also studying and finishing my projects/papers not only on time, but with quality in them.
