Living in a different country, in a different culture is a whole different adventure. I cannot believe that I living in this adventure for past six months. I remember the day I came here. I was terrified. I wanted to go back home so badly, but after a while, after I started to get to know different people, to get to know the culture which I live in, some things changed for me. Coming here was my first time that I was going to be away from my family, and it turned out to be my first step into my very “own” life.
It is still not easy to live in a place where is so far away from your family. I mean, if I want to see them, I have to pay a lot of money for a plane ticket, and to travel almost eighteen hours. On the other hand, this experience, being by own my own in a country which is full of many surprises is priceless to me. I am lucky to be here as a student; I am lucky to get an education in here, yet the most educated part is not the classes I am taking, it is my experience in here as an international student, as a person who have a different cultural back ground. Trust me; everyday that I spend here is another day that I learn something.
Honestly, the past couple of days were very busy for me, I am still struggling with the classes by the way, but I have a goal now. It is not a long time goal; it is a goal which has been helping me to motivate myself. A goal comforts me. You call this goal “Spring Break”. Wooooow, how exciting! At least it is for me. I am serious. This is something that you can only experience in here, U.S. I mean everybody around me have been making plans at least for a month to spring break. First, I did not understand that why ever body was making this such a big deal, yet I did not know that towards to this break, I was going to count the days. I do not know who invented spring break, but I think this was his or her most successful work in the life. We do not have a spring break in Turkey, but we have time to be relaxed during the semester because of our schedule. (I am not going to talk about that part, since it is a really long story). That is why; I have never felt the need of this kind of break until now.
It is weird for someone who have never had a spring break before to imagine herself in spring break. I mean, I am making plans about what I am going to do in spring break, and interestingly I have great ideas- at least everybody think so- for a person who just have learned spring break. Probably, I am too excited about spring break, but I cannot help it. The only advise that I can give you about spring break, if you want to have fun just find a person who have not heard spring break before, and do something with that person. Trust, you are going to have so much fun just watching that person.
Finally, I am asking you a favor, please tell me your advices about spring break. I want to learn from you, and trust I am going to try to do everything you told me. I am waiting for your comments.
People do lots of different things for Spring Break, it all depends on what you want to do. While the beach is great place to go here in Corpus Christi, it is NOT somewhere you want to go during Spring Break... unless you want to deal with huge crowds of very rude people. People come from out of town to visit the beaches here and it can get pretty crazy. A lot of people go out of town for Spring Break, to either go visit family or friends or go camping out in nature, stuff like that. Personally, I enjoy just taking a break for Spring Break. I like to have the time to clean up around the house and organize and take a break from school for a week. I try to get things done (like go for a walk, read a book for enjoyment, go shopping, cook/bake) that I normally don't have time for. If you know someone that has a pool and the weather is nice, it's always nice to lay out by the pool and have a few drinks. :)
ReplyDeleteWhile this might not sound very exciting, this is what I do for Spring Break. I just wanted to share my ideas with you!