Spring break has begun and officially ended tonight when I returned to school; time for some recapping.

I had a paper due at midnight on the Sunday of Spring Break which coincidentally was “Easter.” I put “Easter” in parenthesis because it wasn’t really my Easter because my Easter isn’t until the 27th of April because I am Greek Orthodox and we go by a different calendar than most people. (That’s my extent of the knowledge).

The Monday of Spring Break was my most relaxing day ever. I woke up wicked late and did absolutely nothing. The only bad thing about having a late Spring Break was that most of my friends’ Spring Break already occurred so I was home in Newport without much of anything to do.

But luckily the Boston Red Sox started their 2008 campaign by playing two games over in Japan…at 6:00 in the morning. So Tuesday and Wednesday morning I jumped out of bed at 5:45 AM and watched as the Sox went 1-1 on the road trip.

Surprisingly I worked on some homework the following days while combining to do nothing. I’ve been taking six classes and it’s been a non stop grind this semester. It has been so not fun, the school part that is (is school ever fun?); but everything else has been great. I just have so much fun with my friends just hanging out and doing random things.

Spring Break went by so fast but I had fun seeing my family and hanging out with a few friends who actually were home in the latter part of the week. It was just so much fun but all I wanted to do was get back to school. Not really for the school work part but just to have fun with friends that I’ve seen virtually everyday now for the past 7/8 months (not including winter break). I’ve really made a lot of really great friends and I am ready for another month of fun before having to head back to the island for the summer.

That’s the depressing part about only having one more month left to go. Of course I see my friends throughout the summer but it is just different because they aren’t always there. You’re with the same people which sometimes seems like it’s forever (when you’re at school) and when summer hits, it’s totally different; but oh well, just got to look at it as only a month left of classes.

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There is sixteen more days until March 25th. Do you know what the significance of that day is? RED SOX OPENER. Granted it will be at 6:30 in the morning during spring break and played in Japan. Nonetheless, it is an amazing day. Baseball has been dormant since late October and it’s just hasn’t been the same.

So on to my day. For starters, I thought I woke up at 10:30 and it turned out to be 11:30. I’m so not into this changing of the clocks. To be honest, I wouldn’t even have known to do it if I wasn’t informed by my boss at work or at home where my dad changed the clocks in the house. I would have eventually noticed it thanks to Verizon Wireless. Time goes by fast enough that we don’t need to skip any hours, honestly.

Last Thursday in the Last Chapter Pub at school, there was the Dave Matthews Tribute Band that put on a show. It was a pretty good show and the only down side was that it was a wet event so I had to be tagged with two very large X’s on both hands so I can be identified as not allowed to get anything alcoholic. I hate getting marked with the X’s just because I can never get them out. Like I’ll try anything and still days later, it still haunts me. I once even argued with a Pub worker about it but it amounted to nothing because I was once again X’ed.

The Thursday before this one, there was also another big event in the Pub (and yes I got the lettering). It was a comedian Ronnie Jordan (probably spelt it wrong). He is from the south and was talking about plane rides from Savannah to Atlanta and I felt his pain because I did that about a week ago before he performed. He was funny as he went on to talk about things from delicious juice pouches to honey dews to his skit making fun of American Idol winner Ruben Studdard.

But the best news of all came at Relay for Life that our school ran to benefit the cancer society. On a side note, we raised over 25,000 dollars for cancer research. Anyways, the major concert that will be gracing SNHU with its presence will be Third Eye Blind including State Radio opening for them. It is just going to be a great concert. The only bad thing about this is that it’s a Sunday and it’s Red Sox-Yankees. I will have to ignore my love for the Red Sox for one day to go to this great event.

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