Dear Winter Break,
This past month and a half have been great. Really. After all, of the stress that fall semester brought, and the back to back finals that finished, I was so beyond ready to return home. During the last two weeks of the semester, I was barely a person; I ate whatever I could afford when my meal plan ended, slept in various places that were not my bed from the library to study lounges and was wearing some not so cute or matching outfits. My wanting to go home was an understatement -- going back to real meals, my own bed, friends from home and very few responsibilities.
It was great, at first. I returned to my old job so I could make some extra money, I was able to get a full eight hours of sleep every night, and I caught up on all the shows I got behind in during the semester. Not to mention home cooked meals and getting to see my family after so many months. Best of all, winter break means holidays and nothing makes me happier than the holiday season. Thanks for all of this, really, it means a lot.
But I am ready for you to end. It's not you, it's me. I know that's a cliché line, but I've changed since the beginning. It was great at first; I was stressed and tired and just desperately needed to relax and the beginning of break was calm and nice and exactly what I needed.
Time passed, though. Christmas came and went. New Year's flashed by. Suddenly it was 2016, and I'd been home for a month. That wouldn't have been a problem except I had run out of things to do. At college, it's so easy to just get up and go do something if you're bored. Most of your friends are within walking distance, there are programs and events held on a daily basis and I had a schedule and routine to follow. Those are things I just don't have access to at home. I was missing school.
As weird as it sounds, I even miss the stress of homework assignments and exams, I honestly just feel like I'm losing it at home and I really want to go back. All of these feelings heightened when I managed to hang out with my group of friends from college for a day. I'm ready for spring semester.
Thanks, and see you next December.
