Going Home for Thanksgiving

To think – I almost didn’t go home for the holiday…I didn’t book my train ticket until a week before because I was thinking about staying at school during the break, but that I did.

So I wanted to share with you a breakdown of my week:

Monday – Done with classes, awesome. Had a Senate meeting at 9PM, meeting ended sometime later.

Tuesday – At midnight, packed up to go home. Kept myself awake until 4:30AM so I could catch the taxi to the train station. Surprisingly two of my friends took the same taxi. Train departed at 5:30AM. I sat with my friends; they slept as I was writing songs on Garageband on my Mac. For me, the last hour of the train ride always seems to take forever. I started to get antsy. It’s a 7-hour trip to NYC so I assume I arrived at 1:30PM.

I walked to my dad’s office; he and his co-workers were eating lunch so he told me to join. REAL FOOD!!! An hour later mom and my younger brother came from NJ to pick me up and we went straight to grandma’s house (where my mom’s side of the family all gathered). Guess what happened there? REAL FOOD!!!

Wednesday – Opened my textbook hoping to get some homework done (yea, my professors assigned homework for the break). I decided, “forget homework.” So I was pretty much catching up on sleep until dinner, where we went to visit my dad’s side of the family. MORE REAL FOOD!!!

Thursday – Played some piano (all day). In the afternoon, my family went to church to celebrate Thanksgiving; this is where I met up with most of my church friends. We hung out and ate some REAL FOOD. Then, we sang karaoke for the rest of the night.

Friday – Met up with my friends from high school, walked around the local mall (or lack thereof), and had some more real food.

Saturday – Took the morning train back to Rochester and made some friends with the people sitting around me.

My point: Go home for Thanksgiving break. Eating real food for the first time in what feels like a billion years may be the best feeling ever. Plus, if you’re a Harry Potter fan like me, coming back to school puts you back in fantasy world (until, of course, you realize you have finals very soon).