Christmas

I have been in DeKalb, IL for six months. I have not seen or heard the sound of the ciity I grew to love for the past 18 year of my life. Unlike most students at Northern I am not from the Chicago area. I have come to agree with Dorothy's statement, "there's no place like home. All of my problems will be fixed in six days, now that we have come to the end of the semester and christmas has approached. I can not wait until I go back to the city of St. Louis, MO. I want to see the ARCH, the muddy Mississippi River, and go to Forest Park and ice skate. My families tradition is to place the star on the tree on the night of Thansgiving, but since I have been in college I was not able to raise my four year old cousins to place the star on top the tree. Christmas is not about the presents I will get from my family it's about the time we will spend with each other sharing stories and memories of those who can not be with us this year.