On Being 21, Christmas at Luther and Finals Week (and a bit of Parks and Rec...)

Hello everybody!

                            First of all, thank you for all the birthday wishes on my social media accounts! It's so nice to see people around the world taking a few minutes of their time to wish someone a happy birthday - plus, it meant a lot to me! Also, BIG thank you to everyone who came over to my room to wish me a happy birthday and brought gifts. It was a great 21st birthday - even if it was a Monday.

This week in particular has been a bit more hectic than the past weeks. After having an awesome Thanksgiving break - I may or may have not watched too much Netflix - I was hoping to have an easy start into the rest of the semester, but ended up finding myself to be way more stressed than I thought I would be. My week had a nice break when I went to see Christmas at Luther - I mentioned it a few posts behind - and it was SO beautiful. This year, they narrated the stories we don't usually hear about during Christmas - those of the times of War, and how people have coped with being away from their families. For the last song, they had a slideshow of soldiers in World War Two spending Christmas in the refuges. One of my favourite parts was probably seeing all my residents & friends on stage and seeing how beautiful their semester-long efforts paid off, and how beautiful their creation was.

Soon enough though finals caught up with me and I was a little walking mess who just wanted to sleep all day. I also had the misfortune of getting the flu, and spent most of my last week and weekend coughing and sneezing....

                

BUT

FINALS ARE OVER!!