Sorry everyone for the more and more delayed postings. As the semester is winding down, I'm finding myself with less and less free time. November has been a crazy month! After my last post, I had a week where I just spent my time trying to get caught up on all of the school work I had put off. Then Nov. 8-12 Mom and David were here in Syracuse visiting me. It was the little piece of home I needed to get me through until Thanksgiving break! I showed them around the city and we just hung out. It was relaxing and very much needed. Then they went back to Dublin and I had 3 days of school before I left for my whirlwind Thanksgiving trip. I left the Thursday before Thanksgiving and flew into Los Angeles, where I stayed with my best friend from high school, Tori, for a night. On Friday she and I did a little bit of sightseeing then I took the train up to Santa Barbara. I had dinner with my old roommate, and then stayed with my friend Katie until Monday morning. While I was there I got caught up with a lot of my friends and even got a small winter job (more on that later)! Monday morning I took the train up to the Bay Area where my friend Jessica picked me up and brought me to the house. Mom didn't know I was coming home for the holiday so when I walked through the door she was insanely shocked! I was equally shocked to see a new dog in the house (again-more on that later). On Tuesday evening I went to San Francisco with my friend Sonia to see my friend Dan perform in a show. After the show, Sonia and I met up with our friend Claire and we all went back to Dublin. Wednesday morning the whole gang got together for breakfast. A couple of the girls had appointments they had to go to so we made plans to go to the new outlet mall later that day (where I got 2 new shirts). Thursday was Thanksgiving. Friday morning I took Bart to SFO to catch a plane to Boston where I stayed with my friend Stephen and his family (it was A LOT cheaper to fly into Boston than Syracuse) and on Saturday he and I drove back to school WHERE IT WAS SNOWING! Me and my friends Sam and Nikole immediately played in the snow and that's what we did when we weren't doing homework on Sunday as well. Today was back to the normal school schedule and now I'm just focusing on not getting too overwhelmed with school work.
By the way, traveling nowadays sucks. There is no other way to put it. My flight to LA was cancelled as I was arriving at the airport because part of the engine was broken. They tried to make me wait for a flight at 6am on Friday but I knew there had to be a plane going to LA later in the day and they put me on that. Then my train from LA to Santa Barbara was an hour late. Then my luggage got lost going to Boston! Luckily I was able to get it back over the weekend, but it was still not ideal to not have any of my own clothes or toiletries when staying at someone else's house. Luckily Stephen's family were more than willing to lend me clothes and give me a new toothbrush.
Winter job: I was asked to be the dramaturg for a show called "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" (which is one of the funniest musicals I know of)! For those of you who don't know what a dramaturg is, they are responsible for doing all the research of a show and answering any questions about the facts/pronunciations/meanings of words in a show that actors may have. I think it will be a fun winter project for me since I won't be home long enough to have a real normal job.
New Puppy: Mom and the family adopted a new puppy named Genevieve. We call her Jenny for short. She looks like a large chiuaua and is one of the cutest things on the planet!
Anyway don't expect another post from me until the end of the semester. I know I won't have time to write! See you during winter break!
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