Tags: Christmas
It truly is the most wonderful time of the year, the Christmas season! With Black Friday sales just a few weeks ago, the "official" start of the holiday season has begun. Everywhere you go, people are putting up Christmas lights, decorating doors with wreaths, and playing familiar Christmas tunes. These are just a few things I love about Christmas, but for an exhaustive list, check this out.
Ah, finally back in Columbus after a very relaxing Christmas break in the South Dakota.
Over the past 10 days, I've been touring Germany with 29 other colleagues from college. We went to Hamburg, Berlin and Munich. The site visits were planned to allow us enough free time go around the cities and do our own thing as well. The best part was that most of us were strangers to each other, from various courses and majors. But what a trip it was!!! We've had so much fun. Any trip when you don't sleep for more than 5 hours a night has to be an awesome trip I guess.
It has been a great break. I haven’t had 3+ weeks completely off in a long time. Even during my undergrad years I was never fully off. As a rower on the lightweight crew team, every free moment was spent training for the racing season. It was no surprise that I was a little unsure how to spend my winter break. To make it easier, I broke up the break into three blocks.
Some things I'm thankful for:
After buying/ordering all the books for Winter Quarter, I added up everything... and was thrilled that the total was only $188.07... About a third of what Autumn Quarter was!
I made it through a week-long road trip and nearly two weeks with the family over winter break without any mishaps.
Christmas with my extended family was relaxing, and everyone enjoyed their gifts.