As I mentioned in my last post, the first weekend of October was Family Weekend here at UR and I was getting a little sad because my family wasn’t going to visit. It all got better because I was able to hang out with my girlfriend and her parents, going off campus for dinner and to amazing shows like the one by the mentalist, Craig Karges. Still, there was another family who also made me feel a lot better over the weekend.
Since the beginning of my freshmen year, I developed really good friendships with people in my leadership class, because we were all in a program called Spinning Your Web and got to live in the same floor. Most of them are still acquaintances, but only some of them are still close friends. If you’ve read posts from last year, you know one of my best friends, if not the best, I met thanks to that program.
My first interaction with his family was when I went home with him for Thanksgiving. Since there was no way I could go home, and there was no way I could stay on campus either, I ended up going to Baltimore, Maryland for the break. I had an amazing time there and all the family members really liked me. Unfortunately, after Thanksgiving break I didn’t have any other chances to see them.
For that reason, when my friend told me his family was coming over for the weekend, I was excited to see them. I spent Friday with my girlfriend’s parents and on Saturday I had lunch with my friend, his brother and his parents. We went to Carytown Burgers (a place you must definitely check out as soon as you’re in Richmond) and ended up staying there for over two hours, just chilling and catching up.
After that, we got back to campus and my friend wanted to show them his room, so we were all hanging out there, joking around and being silly. They really made me feel extremely comfortable over Thanksgiving that one time, and that didn’t change, so I was happy I was able to spend some time with them.
The relationship is so good, that they kept asking me when they would see me again, joking that since I got a girlfriend, I don’t have any time left for them. And, since I’ll be spending Thanksgiving break this year with my girlfriend and her family, the option of Winter break came up. Tickets to Peru are way too expensive during that time of the year, and I would only be staying for a couple of weeks, so I decided it wasn’t worth going back.
Consequently, I’ll be spending Christmas and New Year’s with my best friend and his family! I’m extremely excited about that, and I even have a couple of gifts for them already 
I’m looking forward to the break, not only because it’ll mean that I won’t have any work to do for three weeks or so, but also because I know I’ll have a great time, and I’ll still be spending Christmas with people who I can considered my family =).
