Emily's blog
Class of 2009, Communications Major, from Houston, TX

Hey everyone! Sorry it has been so long since the last blog, I have been in
Houston for the past 3 weeks visiting my family. My three weeks at home was
really nice. I hung out with my two brothers, two sisters, and parents a lot.
I don't really have any friends in Houston since I did not grow up there, so
most of my time there is usually spent with my family. I don't mind not
having many friends in Houston, because that means I can spend more time with
my family. It would be hard going home and having to balance my time between
high school friends and family. I do miss seeing my friends from high school
a lot though. That is definitely one of the hardest things about moving so
much.

I did a lot of different things while I was home. My family and I went to a
Houston Rocket's basketball game, Texas A&M men's basketball game, and a
Houston Texan's football game. Those were all really fun. I always shop a
lot when I am there, so my sisters, mom, and I did that a lot. The shopping
is awesome there!! Other than that I just hung out with my family, worked
out, played basketball with my brothers, and had a nice Christmas and New
Years. Christmas is really different in Houston compared to in De Pere or
Green Bay. In Houston it never really feels like Christmas because it is so
warm, and there is no snow on the ground. The people still get pretty into
decorating there though. All the houses are covered in lights, and people are
really into the blow up yard art there. They have huge blow up snow globes
with snow blowing around inside it, and big blow up snow men and Santa's. I
thought that was pretty funny. Another thing that's different there is all
the people around our neighborhood hire people to put up their lights for
them. They don't actually do it themselves! It's the weirdest thing. In
Wisconsin people put their lights up when it's 10 degrees below zero, and it's
70 degrees in Houston and no one puts their lights up themselves. Overall
though, it was a really nice Christmas. I got new "Ugg" boots, which was
definitely my favorite present.

Christmas is over and done with now though, and I am back to De Pere to work
for two weeks before school starts up again. We don't start classes until
January 21st, so I have about two weeks of working at Admissions and coaching
basketball until school starts. I got back to De Pere yesterday, January 7th.
It was the longest traveling days of my life. I was stuck in Detroit because
of fog in Green Bay. Then I flew to Milwaukee and was stuck there for awhile
because of the fog. Luckily I made it into Green Bay yesterday afternoon.
It will be nice to have two weeks to get settled and ready for school to
start. I guess I will head out now, and I'll talk to ya'll later.

Emily

P.S. My JV girls basketball team is 8-2 now, and we have 10 games left. GO
TRITONS!!!