Gabby's Winter Break!

Today marks my first official work day of the new year! I'm not going to lie, leaving home and coming back to school was not something I was looking forward to :( I definitely got use to lounging around, not having to think about school related things and mom's home cooking, not to mention the Filipino food that my grandpa was cooking during the holiday season! YUMM:) My grandparents from the Philippines came this past October after being out of the US for 2 years! It really made the holidays extra special <3
  So now i'm back at UT Tyler and enjoyed an extremely busy day of re-organizing my room and putting my gazillion stuff back in my apartment in PV ( I kinda have an over packing problem.... ) So my very first blog of the year is of course about my winter break!!!:) Instead of writing long and detailed paragraphs about it, i'm just gonna show you in pictures and captions :) Hope you enjoy it!( By the way, I didn't do anything special since I am taking a GINORMOUS 5 week trip to Japan this summer )

The Return From Spring School Work "Break"

            Well, I don't know about you, but for those who had to spend their spring break doing school work, I feel for you. I was one of those students who had to enlist a lot of internal discipline to actually sit at my computer for days while the weather behind my window promised me a life of sweet freedom. I spent days working on two research proposals for my senior sociology classes. I must say that I felt quite miserable there for most of the week.

         But I had relief. I was to take a weekend get-away trip to visit some family. With my eyes set on the light at the end of the tunnel, I worked and slaved over my school assignments. Each day I had a work goal that I tried to meet in order to prevent me from burning out too quickly. The end goal, which was to complete everything by Thursday afternoon was not met, but I came very close to meeting it. At some point you just have to stop working & set everything aside for a little while & not think about it.