I can’t believe it’s already week six and November!! It seems like the weeks have flown by but it also feels like we have been here forever too. I think it’s helped that I have really grown closer to all the girls on my floor and classes keep me really busy.

It’s somewhat weird to me to not be at home during this time of year because it’s the beginning of holiday season, Thanksgiving is like three weeks away!! I haven’t actually missed a lot of long standing traditions being away at college yet. I think the only things I have missed are a few Halloween traditions– roasting pumpkin seeds, passing out candy at my friends house, and etc. but I think I replicated those to the best of my abilities here and still had a lot of fun. But besides that I don’t think there are really too many traditions that I’ll be missing being here in college. I am going home for Thanksgiving and I’ll be there for all of our Thanksgiving traditions which most of them happen on the actual weekend anyway. Also my parents are the type of people that will hold off on doing a lot of holiday traditions until both my sister and I are back home, if possible. When my sister was in college and I was still at home if the timing worked out we also waited for her to get home to do all of the things that we do every year. This year Thanksgiving weekend at my house will actually be a little different then it has been in the past because my sister might only stay for the actual day of Thanksgiving instead of the whole weekend because she has finals for law school the next week. It’ll be weird in the sense that she won’t be with me to deal with all my parents weird habits and we won’t be able to go shopping or watch movies together. I mean I understand why she feels like she can’t stay for the whole weekend because in all honesty she won’t be study a lot or get much done if she stays home.

I wouldn’t say that I have established too many traditions yet in these first six weeks of classes yet. Though three people have already had their birthday’s on our floor and for each of them we have made posters, given them balloons, cards, and etc. I am looking forward to making more and more traditions throughout my time here and especially during this upcoming holiday season.

It’s finally the weekend and I’m so thankful, this week was a little cray cray.