Almost Thanksgiving...

A week from tomorrow, at 6 AM central, I will board a plane that will take me to transfer to another plane that will take me to Massachusetts (okay, NH first, but then MA). For starters, holy mother of God! It's Thanksgiving time already? But it feels like the semester just started.

Then again, it also feels like I have lived in New Orleans my whole life. I consider 60 degrees "winter weather" now and potential snow over Thanksgiving/Xmas fascinates me. It's not like I've missed anything on that front (except a few flurries in Fitchburg Monday I heard?), but I haven't been acclimated to cold enough weather to produce snow, in fact, I wore flip flops to class today.

New Orleans culture feels like my own in many ways now. I feel so strongly connected to the events, music, food, et cetera. I know my way around the city fairly well now, and not having a car/money, that's impressive.

Anyways, I was talking about how I am going back to MA for Thanksgiving. I know 18.5 years in one place vs. 3 months in another hardly compares, but I honestly don't remember what it felt like to live in MA. When I think of home, I think of my dorm room, and consider my house back home my parent's house, the house I grew up in. I'm not ready to completely leave the nest at all, I love my parents' support, but it's how I catalog things. Home will feel like home again within a few hours of being at home home (how many times can I say "home" in one sentence?), but my dorm room is where I live. It's a question of saying you're from one place but live in another.

I am sad I missed the foliage. I think it might be cool to do Watatic while I'm home, some sort of mountainous structure. I went from the second hilliest city in the country to a giant bowl near the bayou that we all know and love as New Orleans. Even on hurrication in Texas everything seemed so flat. I miss freaking out behind the wheel driving up and down the super-steep streets of Fitchburg, it'll be so unreal to see hills like that! I haven't been around hills since August 15th, the day I moved. I also haven't touched a steering wheel since the 14th, so we'll see how driving works.

I am excited because most of my high school friends either live in Fitchburg still or are coming home, so I'll get to see my crowd. I miss them. I miss my family. I miss NCCES. I miss Fitchburg<3

<3Alymay