Yeah, I’m really excited for Thanksgiving.
I’m excited to see my family again and be home with them for a little bit.
Things are okay, it's been a little bit quiet on grounds as folks are starting to head home.
I think everyone’s trying to relax after a rough semester.
It’s been a long two months, especially because we're nursing students, so we really
haven't gotten a break yet.
We all need a break from school, so.
I'm excited to go home but also, I'm a little bit nervous about traveling.
I also think there’s a lot of anxiety around going home because we've been here for so
long and then going home to family it’s a little nervous.
I am a little sad about Thanksgiving this year because I can't be with my grandma or
my aunts and uncles which is a little disappointing.
I'm going to be spending Thanksgiving with my friends, my quarantine pod, and really
being grateful for the people I have here at my second home.
This is my dog, Penney, I’m watching her for a few days and I’m really grateful for
her.
I’m grateful that there's still a lot of stability in the world given the incredible
circumstances.
As a scientist, it’s a super rewarding time to be doing infectious disease research.
I'm just really happy with the news over the last week from Pfizer and Moderna that there's
a vaccine that’s more than 90% effective.
I’m grateful I haven't gotten sick yet, I haven’t caught the Corona, been dipping
and dodging.
I’m also really grateful that I'll be able to spend the holiday season with my family.
I’m really grateful for my parents, they’re all the way out in California so I've just
been calling them a lot this year and it's been really nice.
I think it's important to be grateful like, in general just like appreciate the small
things.
Given the vast majority of human history, we live in truly amazing times and I kind
of forget about that a lot recently.
Sometimes we don't recognize the things that we do have until we don't have them.
We often talk about gratitude in our nursing classes about how it will lead to better resiliency,
and how, you just live so much of your life not noticing the good, and when you are intentional
about that gratitude, you actually realize that life’s not that bad.
We have this chance to have this learning experience on Earth and like, everything around
us is something that we can take and you know, try to make our communities better try to
make ourselves better as people.
I don’t know, I try to hold onto that.
It’s easy to forget, sometimes.