So I am in my fourth week of Winter Break, which is about a week more than the typical Rutgers student due to the early break which being a dance major warrants you (yay!), and I am honestly starting to become bored. Wait, how can that be?? I've spent my first semester dancing up to 40 hours a week and suffering through expos (although I managed to get a B with the teacher with the strictest grading I have ever dealt with) and now that I am doing so much less than I was before, my days have started running into each other and time has begun to go into slow motion. Okay, so maybe I am overexaggurating with the whole time-bending thing, but the basic point I am trying to get across is that having such a long break is not exactly the most ideal thing to have.
Within the first two weeks I had not ony managed to meet up with countless friends from home, and taken upon myself a rigorous workout regiment to maintain my physique, but I had relaxed enough so that I was feeling in prime condition (a feeling with disappeared within the first few weeks of school due to my long days and rigorous schedule). I began taking every open class which my former dance studio (Princeton Dance and Theater- ask me for information and I will shamelessly advertise) offered, as well as begun taking classes in New York City. Every opportunity to better myself I wound up taking. So then I thought...what next? I wound up having a lot of free time, seeing as there are just so many hours in a day and I could not possibly fill up every hour with different activities. I saw this opportunity to try something brand new- volunteering at my town's food pantry. I would go in to the food pantry with one of my very volunteer-concious friends and we would help out for hours on end. Trust me, helping out actually felt fantastic.
Happening on my fourth week now, I have seemingly exhausted basically every activity I could do. I managed to go to 3 different malls, 7 different starbucks, visited countless friends, ate at Panera approx. 15 times, sat in Borders with friends for more hours than there are in a day, ice-skated, watched a hockey game, went bowling, saw a show, went to the movies, gone on an adventure, been out of state, eaten chocolate bacon (weird but satisfying), read 5 books, watched 25 dvds, ate at Chiles, Applebees, and Fridays, played Mario Party more than I would like to admit, slept past 2 pm, drank 9 liters of soda, checked my Facebook 129879912491 times (okay, exaggerated but you get the picture)...the list goes on. What else is there in life?
My final thoughts:
Winter break is fantastic until you run out of interesting things to do; however, it also forces you to become creative in your choices of activities. We still have two weeks, but trust me, I'll find fun stuff to do!
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