Exams, exams, exams! They're almost over! Soon I'll be bundled up on my couch surrounded by family and good food with a hot coco in hand. I'm one of the unlucky students who got stuck with my last final on the 19th, so I can't start dreaming of sugar plums dancing in my head just yet. In the meantime, I'm dreaming of easy-grading profs and sympathetic TA's.
The top 5 things I'm looking forward to this break are:
5) Sleeping in my own bed. There isn't quite anything like getting home to find your bed all made up with clean sheets eagerly awaiting you to jump into its heap of plushy softness!
4) Dad Jokes. You know, the kind of jokes all dads make that are filled with lame puns and laced with an eagerness that says "I'm so happy you're home!" They're the best kind of jokes and no matter how lame and silly they might be, they're the funniest and make me never want to leave home again.
3) Real home-cooked meals. The best is that first moment you walk in the door, duffle bags in hand, and the comforting aroma of cookies, shortbread and the fireplace wrap you up in an invisible blanket of awesome. Just as you put your bags down, dinner appears on the table and it's all your favourite foods! Home is awesome.
2) Snowshoeing with the fam. I love the outdoors, especially in winter and when my parents told us they were planning a little family holiday to a cabin in the woods, I got all giddy and started jumping up and down. When my family goes snowshoeing, it often turns from a perfectly relaxed winter hike to a messy snowball fight and races to the next bend (if someone doesn't get pushed into the snowbank first, that is). All in good fun, it develops into a snow war where my little sister and older brother team up against me. As you might have guessed, I'm the one who usually ends up in the snowbank.
1) Skating on an outdoor rink. Could I be more Canadian?! This is one of those timeless pleasures that I can't get enough of. Be it a frozen pond, canal, river or the soccer field around the block, I love lacing up my skates and feeling my edges cut through the ice while snowflakes land on my nose.
Need I say more?
Sleep lots, laugh lots, eat lots and play lots.
Keep active and have very happy holidays, McGill!
- Martlet Girl
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