When I came home for Thanksgiving for the first time I expected the typical brigade of questions such as: How are those grades doing? Do you get along with your roommate? When was the last time you got a haircut? Are you dating anyone? And any other question you might encounter when reading an article titled “10 Questions You’ll Probably Get Asked but Won’t Want to Answer Over Thanksgiving Break”. The question that stumped me the most however, was is it weird? This simple yet complicated question was asked numerous times by extended family members and by friends and teachers when I visited my high school. I responded to them hesitantly “Yeah, a little bit”. It was weird sleeping in my bed for the first time in three months. It was weird going from a constant routine to a break. It was weird seeing an ex girlfriend. It was weird hearing about my friends’ lives at their respective colleges and universities across the country. It was weird having to put on a guest sticker when going to my high school. This whole Thanksgiving break had this weird feeling of woah, things are a little different and I’m gonna have to get used to it. Still, within this storm of weirdness was a strike of normality. When I got past the all nagging questions my parents asked me and learning about all that has occurred in my friends’ lives since we last saw each other, things seemingly slid into its natural state. At times it was almost as if things hadn’t changed at all. But that weirdness was still present although maybe only subconsciously. This sense of weirdness made me more attentive and interested in people’s lives, more so than I really ever was. It made me appreciate where I come from and where I am. I’m excited to go back to school and finish my first semester as a college student. To be honest that’s still pretty weird for me to say, but I think I’ll be getting used to it pretty soon.