Whenever I read books, I like to highlight my favorite quotes and moments. Winter break is my time to start reading again because my to-read list is getting excessively long and I'm excited to start slowly shortening it. So with that said, excuse my geekyness as I share two of the quotes that I loved from the book that I recently finished, Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta. 

"What are you so sad about?...We're going to know him for the rest of our lives."

"I remember love. It's what I have to keep on reminding myself. It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love."

I hope everyone's having a lovely Christmas Eve, I'm spending mine with my family in Georgia. It's a bit of an inconvenience to not have internet at my grandma's house so I have to go over to my aunt's house for it, but it's all right because I enjoy the extra family time. My grandma always loves when her favorite grandchildren come to visit her, so there's no complaints from her. I have caught my grandma trying to be sneaky and checking up on us through the doors of our rooms because she seems to be afraid that we might suddenly disappear if she doesn't keep her eye on us! She's definitely a character, haha.

These past few days have been full of fun activities, all of which are most deserved since the semester is now over for me. On Friday I went to the city with a few friends who were nice enough to be my tour guides for the day! It was my first time being in New York City during the Christmas season, so I was really excited. The entire day was just so much fun, and I guess I was pretty entertaining to everyone because I was fascinated by a lot of the things they were used to seeing growing up. 





They all had me cover my eyes once we got to the tree so they could surprise me with it, but the thing is they showed me the tree up close so I couldn't gauge the enormity of it. They were offended when my first comment was that "the tree isn't THAT big." Hahaha, no wonder why Chris calls me a princess.

I came home from school a day earlier than I had planned because living in Upstate New York, there are always unexpected weather conditions that we have to worry about. There was a snowstorm that was going to hit my area so I had to leave early to beat the snowstorm and the terrible traffic. We ran into the snow while I was driving...If you've had any experience driving in the snow you would know how scary it can be. Driving through unploughed snow on the freeway is terrifying especially when you can feel your car slip and slide once in a while. Thankfully we got home safely!

This is the first time I've come back home in about three months, and I have to say this break is much needed. I've come to really enjoy going home after going off to college, which wasn't always the case before I moved out. This may sound cliche, but sometimes you don't realize how much something really means to you until it's gone..or in my case until you part from it for a while. It's one of those cliche sayings that didn't really have much meaning to me until it started to directly relate to my life.

I hope you all spend your Thanksgiving stuffing your faces with turkey or whatever kind of food you have with your family. Take the time to tell the people in your life how much they mean to you.

Happy Thanksgiving!

On Wednesday it was Sonia's 21st birthday, so we all had a small get together for the first part of her birthday celebration. We went to the Cheesecake factory, which always is a good choice when you want to get dressed up for dinner! I have to say it was one of the most hilarious dinners I've ever been to simply because Chen and Ilana interacting with each other was a show within itself.