Well, mimicking the many Facebook statuses I have seen recently, I have survived my first semester of college! I returned home on Friday after a six hour bus ride from Oxford.
First thing after I returned, I attended my brother's holiday band concert. I was glad to see so many of my friends there who are still in high school. After then, it was clear that my dog, Maggie, clearly missed me again as well. She has not been as attached to me as during Thanksgiving break, but apparently she has just been more attached to everyone in general since I left. I made her a more snuggly dog somehow!
While I am home for four weeks, I will be back to work, turn nineteen, and see plenty of people that I have not seen for months. I already had one day of work and I have begun to visit some of my old high school activities.
So far, I love visiting everyone! Yesterday my friend Krista and I went to visit the newspaper we worked on, but it was their deadline night so they were too busy to stop and talk (as we expected). We just wanted to say hi anyway. Today I stopped in at Student Council's holiday party, and when I walked in, everyone that I knew from last year were so excited to see me! There was literally a line to come give me a hug. Now if that does not make someone feel special, I do not know what would! They were having a gingerbread house making contest, and they made me the judge, haha. I am so glad I chose to go. I am also planning on stopping in again tomorrow with a group of alums. Hopefully they will appreciate this surprise visit!
It is still the beginning of my break and I cannot wait to catch up with everyone and relax. This is my first winter break in four years that I do not have any homework! I can also officially relax now since I was able to view my grades yesterday and I finished my first semester with a 3.57 GPA! It is not official yet, but I think that is Dean's List qualifying! I am so happy and glad that I took it easy my first semester so that I have a nice cushion for my GPA before I have to take more challenging courses.
Anyway, I am ready to sit back and relax at home, but I will definitely be video messaging Ashton and Courtney during break, I think I may miss them too much if I do not at least once during this month!
~ Valerie
