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Wine and Cheese Night

Wine and Cheese Night
After finishing our exams, a few STEM friends and I decided to celebrate by having our own "wine-STEM" night a.k.a. wine and cheese night. It was a good relaxing night with friends, food, and lots of sangria.

Winter Ball


But my friends and I dressed up for the weekend and got ready for a fun night of dancing and drinking at our school's event. Before hand there was as usual, a lot of prep; hair, makeup, clothes. But this year was also fun because my friends and I decided to make our own pizzas too. So we spent some time making dough, pizza sauce, and even our own cheese! The only thing we didn't make ourselves was the pepperoni and the bell peppers we bought.

Turkey Trot
Thanksgiving morning meant it was finally time for my 8K race... and I'm glad to say that we finished it! Dylan and I woke up early on Thanksgiving and headed downtown to run the 5K/ 8K with a bajillion other runners. We were pretty lucky in that the weather was upper 50's and that it only started to rain after we ran. Needless to say, I'm proud that I managed to run an 8K in 54:49.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving at my house is always a little different - yes we do turkey, mashed potatoes, and the whole shibang. BUT my family likes to do sushi for lunch, so I spent the rest of my morning with my brother rolling and making tons of maki sushi.


After dinner though, we all stumbled onto the couch in our food induced comas for obligatory family pictures and such. My family was joined by my cousin, my aunt, my grandparents, and both mine and my brother's significant others. We managed to cram in all the kids and parents and finally get our picture, so that everyone could go on playing video games, watching football, and all other things.

With Christmas coming - there seem to be advent calendars everywhere! While it's always fun to have one, there's such difficulty in deciding which advent calendar to get! So I've tried my best to compile a list of some of the more interesting calendars that I've seen this year.

I will try to update this during the whole month, so bookmark this and keep checking back!

Food
- Scotch and Whiskey Calendar
- Starbucks Treats Calendar

Makeup
- Benefit Cosmetics 12 Day Calendar
- Essence Nail Polish Calendar
- Ciate Mini Mani 25 Day Calendar

Cheap
- Trader Joe's Chocolate Calendar (both in milk and dark)
- Costco Calendar

Other
- The Body Shop 24 Day Calendar
- Lego Advent
- Chemical Advent (free)

Sedlec Ossuary

The second week of CIEE came with lots of different trips! The first trip was to the Sedlec Ossuary, a bone church found in Kutna Hora, Czech Republic. It was a very interesting trip - a mix of creepy and interesting all in one. It was really neat to see the church though, the whole place is covered in bones of fallen soldiers. They were placed in interesting and strange designs. I found it a little interesting how people would take so many pictures and selfies with these bones, sometimes in almost disrespectful ways. People were even throwing coins and other things through the gates at the bones.

Terezin was another place we visited that week. It was about an hour bus ride outside of Prague. Visiting Pamatnik Terezin was a really humbling and eye opening day. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, Terezin the town housing a former Nazi concentration camp. Sadly - we weren't allowed to take any pictures within the camp. However, I can tell you that this town greeted you with a large cemetery when the bus pulled up. Then we were able to tour everything from a ghetto museum, to barracks, and a crematorium.

New Town, Prague, Czech Republic

And with those stories I leave you with a picture of some street performers in New Town. These guys were there every weekend, and they even let me make some bubbles once too!

Hey guys! Sorry I've been missing for awhile - there was a whirlwind of exams, holidays, and I came down with a fever for a bit.

Anyways, I plan to spoil all of you this month because I will be attempting blogmas this year! What this means is I will be attempting to post everyday until Christmas! This will be a long and hard feat - and be warned there may be some half hearted posts as my final exams come closer, but I will do my best!

So stay tuned every day this month for a variety of different posts!

Thanksgiving is around the corner, and with the holidays comes the urge to remember all in your life and be thankful for what you have. While everyone chooses to go about this in different ways, a lot of artists express their feelings through the songs they write. This week, I've compiled a list of songs that really speak to me. Their lyrics are extremely moving and passionate, and I think they can make you feel everything from thankful to inspired.


1. Unsteady- X Ambassadors

2. Twenty Years - Augustana

3. Hello - Adele

4. My Shadow (Keane Cover) - Alyson Michalka

5. Human - Christina Perri

6. Forever and Always - Parachute

7. Pony (It's Okay) - Erin McCarley

8. Something Beautiful - NeedtoBreathe


Let me know in the comments what you guys think! I actually made one of my friends listen to these, and she cried listening to #6!