I'll be home for the holidays

Today over dinner my friends and I were having a discusion about Christmas and our family's. We were all a little sad that we can't be home with our familys this Christmas. We are a new family out here and we are trying to come up with some new traditions. So the eight girls of the family have decided to do a secret santa for each other. When we all have suites next year, we plan on getting a small tree for the room. I think because it's we are all away from home for the first time, at Christmas. So, like a family, we pull together to support each other through our first Christmas away from home.

It's the most wonderful time of the year

I love Christmas. It is so fun for me because I get to spend time with my family and friends. It seems that Christmas is even more important this year. I havn't gotten to spend a lot of time with the rents, my hermanito or my friends from high school. I have about three and a half weeks to see them and catch up ect. Unfortunatlly I don't get to decorate the Christmas tree. When I get home, it will be almost time for Christmas. It's sad, but I do get to spend time with my other family. I get to enjoy begining new traditions with my friends at Geneseo. We can decorate our own fake tree, decorate the hall, decorate the rooms, and just have some fun.

This year seems to be going by so fast. I can't believe that Thanksgiving is over with and that Chrismas is less than a month away. The music is already playing and it really puts you in the mood for the season. I guess thats all for now.

Is it really to early for Christmas

Wow, Christmas is slowly but surely creaping up on us. The stores have begun to decorate and the comercials have begun. The music has started as well. Yesterday I heard Christmas music on the radio. I really shouldn't talk about the music because I have already started to listen to it. Soon my shopping will begin, which is acually a lot of fun. I am mostly excited for the snow. I plan on skiing A LOT when I go home for Christmas. It is by far the best winter sport ever. What is also amazing is that we are almost done with the first semester of classes. This year is flying by.

Chapter 6

I have just read Chapter six in Nissenbaum's book. The chapter discussed a lot about charity, paticularly around the holiday season. Many people worked hard, especially durring the holiday season to give those less fortunate, paticularly children, a nice Christmas. It's really sad to know that while you are enjoying a nice Christmas with your family that there are other people who can't. That is probably why people are more willing to give to charity organizations durring the holdiay season. What really touched me with this chapter was that the rich children are ungrateful with their hordes of presents, while the poor children were contnent to just look at the toys in the shop windows. The sweetness of these children is really inspiring. Wouldn't it be nice if we could as satisfied as these children? Many people look at what they could have or what they want and aren't content with what they do already have.

Update

So for the past two weeks we have been posting topics at Virtual Coffee house and discussing the Christmas Carol. Everyone made a lot of really good observations in class and on the forum. I turned in paper five, deciedeing to discuss the importance of family in the Christmas Carol. I discussed two of the families in the novel, the Cratchits and Scrooges family, the Miners. For the sixth paper I plan on fixing the forth paper, hopefully because I did worse on that paper. Overall, I really enjoyed the Christmas Carol. It wasn't to strenuos to read and I found the side notes very helpful in understanding the meaning of some of the words and phrases. So I guess that is just an update of how class has been going.