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University of Minnesota
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Jasmine's Blog
Pre-Spring Break: Time for R & R!
It is hard to believe how fast this semester is going. Day-by-day it can be challenging and busy, but as soon as you know it's over. Next week is the week many students are looking forward to, and that's SPRING BREAK.
While many students are heading out to warm places, my plan is to do something I have not had much time to do this semester, RELAX!
My original plan was to go on the Pay It Foward Tour through this awesome group on campus called Students Today, Leaders Forever(www.stlf.net). I went last year and it was a great experience. What it is: one of 20 tour buses full of college aged students on a 9 day road trip, each taking different routes to the final destination, or "celebration city". Each day, you stop in a city and do a 4-5 hour community service project, then once all the buses meet up in the celebration city, everyone does one big giant day of service. On the way, you sleep in YMCAs, churches, community centers, etc but in the celebration city you stay in a very nice hotel and have time to explore the city. It's a great way to make many new friends and make a difference in the world at the same time. I would highly recommend it.
All that being said, I decided not to go this year for several reasons. One of which is that although the trip is fantastic, you don't get a whole lot of sleep, mostly because of the evening social activities. I am an outgoing person and love to talk/play games with people so going to bed late and waking up early was not so fun. Since the last few weeks have been especially jammed packed and in order for me to not get burned out by April, I decided that it would be best for me to take an actual break, without a whole lot of planned activities. It will be a great time for me to catch up on homework and assignments, work on finding a faculty adviser for my Honors thesis, and spend some quality time with my friends who are here as well. Not going was a super hard decision to make, but I am sure that once I return to school feeling relaxed and refreshed, it will have been well worth it.
Happy Spring Break!
Although, next year I do want to take an actual fun trip to a warm place with some friends!
Where I wish I was:
