Back At It Again
This winter break was perhaps the longest winter break I have ever had. Many of my friends left by week three of my break while I still had a week and a half to go. In terms of how my break went, it went down very well.
After my perilous journey going home (check out my previous post if you want to read about it.), I slept a good ten to eleven hours. For the rest of my first week, I helped my folks setup all the Christmas decorations and I hung out with a couple of my hometown friends. Week two brought Christmas with it and all my favorite aunts and uncles as well as cousins. Everyone was happy to catch up and play fun games. My sister, who just came home from a trip in Tanzania, came in for Christmas for only a few days before she had to take off back to her job in Baltimore. During that time we went to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for a holiday concert. For Christmas, I received a variety of gifts some including: What Do You Meme? card game, a few more coins for my collection, a couple of gift cards, a phonograph player and some vinyl records. For some reason, I recently started to enjoy listening to vinyl records and cassette tapes from my parent’s and grandparent’s collection. I don’t know why these forms of analog are so enticing. Maybe its because we live in such a digital world, we crave for something we can hold in order to make memories worthwhile.
For New Years weekend, my best friend and his family invited me and another one of my friends to come up to their lake house in Wisconsin. Thankfully, we arrived in time to see the lake freeze up. This led to a fun weekend of ice skating, drinking sparkling grape juice, and watching some good old- fashioned movies. The only thing I did not like about that weekend was the fact that some of the ice cracked underneath my skates, which made me skate faster to shore in order to save my butt.
On the week of January sixth to the twelfth, I caught up with a couple of my yearbook friends. One currently goes to Wisconsin while the other two go to Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Earlier that week, we all got the news that our yearbook for the ’17-’18 school season was awarded first place for best yearbook of the year by the American Scholastic Press Association. It goes to show how great a project can go if you surround yourself with the best people you can know. The next day, I took another one of my friends downtown to a museum that was showing how a production of Saturday Night Live is made. We discovered old sets including the original set for Wayne’s World! Later on the twelfth, my parents took me to Milwaukee to a Marquette basketball game at their new arena, the Fiserv Forum. Marquette whooped Seton Hall’s butt and the crowd was very ecstatic by the win.
This previous Thursday the 18th, I had to change my time of departure back to Mizzou because of weather issues in the Midwest. I took a Greyhound bus from Chicago all the way back to the crappy Transit Authority station in St. Louis. After a thirty-minute wait, I got back on a different bus and made my way to Columbia which stopped in front of a trucker bar and gas station. Out of all the transportation options I have been on, I would say the Missouri express to Chicago would be my favorite and the Greyhound would be the worst. Classes start on Tuesday, the twenty second. I have four classes on Monday, Wednesday and two classes on Tuesday and Thursday. Hopefully, everything works well for me this semester. I plan on rushing for the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and I also plan on getting a position at the Alpine Shop based on Broadway Street. Until next time!