Thanksgiving for me!

Hello!

Well this past week has been an adventure. The weekend before last, my roommate and I had a memorable event. Long story short we drove over a sewage thing sticking out of the dirt road and it messed up her skid plate. It was so funny. We fixed it all by ourselves. She pulled over jacked her car up and I got underneath and took it off and went along our day like nothing. It was really funny and awesome. Then this past week has been insane! From Monday to Tuesday I did not sleep for those two days. I was up at 6:30 Monday morning till Tuesday night. I was finishing up two papers. It was crazy but I got it done.

Then my wonderful mom bought my roommates and I our Thanksgiving dinner. So Thursday, I cooked the turkey and we had mashed potatoes with gravy, cranberry sauce, stuffing, pumpkin pie, and some wine. It was such a great night. It was my roommates, another exchange student from Denmark and I. It did hit home a little when the day actually came. I didn't even think about how I would feel not being home for Thanksgiving for the first time and alone. The dinner was awesome and helped me feel a little closer to home. And my roommates enjoyed it and we realized this was one of our last big dinners before we all leave. But my roommate from Denmark had experienced an American Thanksgiving so that was cool to be the one to show her.

This weekend was a nice relaxing one. Friday night I did walk out to Shane Lake (the one by campus) and with snow everywhere it was a walk. lol But the view of the lake was priceless. I could not get a picture but it was something to see. The reason for going to Shane Lake was because one of my friends who is an exchange student from Germany. It was her birthday Friday and she wanted to go out to the lake and have a BBQ! It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be for this time of year especially but we bundled up and we were good to go. We had two fires going, one was for the grill and the other was to stay warm. They brought hot dogs, burgers, and chicken wings, put it all on the grill. They also brought two different salads and a little burner to make hot chocolate. It was an amazing night.

Yesterday one of my roommates and I went for a morning walk on a path across the university. We walked for about an hour and it was beautiful. The path was a little icy but the morning sun was out and bright. Very nice.

It is now the start of a new week and after this week I have half of next week left and then we start finals. It is insane how fast this time has been going by. I can't believe I'm already wrapping this semester up and head home soon!! ahhhhh!!!! Still gotta take it all in! Till next time, have a good one!!!

-Jozi