Holidays ain’t fun anymore!!
Posted: January 11, 2007 Filed under: My bandwagon 2 Comments »
I remember how much fun it was to have a long holiday when I was a kid. Life was so simple and laid back. Only problem that I had was teachers giving lots of homework for a vacation. I sometimes also got away with that by not going to the class in the final day and explaining them later that I didn’t even knew about homework. I don’t know how strenuous it was for my parents during the holidays, but I always had a blast. I had even enjoyed my long holidays when I was in my graduate school, but not anymore.
In America Holidays are very hard to come by, so when it does eventually come you really want to make maximum use of it. For international like me, holidays are more for traveling to new places because we don’t have families here. Since I live in Lafayette, a small city, airfares are sky high so best option is to travel by roads. But, this country is so big that traveling takes a lot of toll on you. Another option for me is to drive to Houston (3 ½ hrs) or Dallas (6 ½ hrs) and take a flight from there. But when adding the price for gas, parking at airport, considering the time consumed to travel to the airport and quantifying the tiredness in driving, I think the cost will come in par with flying from Lafayette itself.
This Christmas and New Year break was very special to me, I got to meet with people I really wanted to meet, went to the places I really wanted to go. It was a real blast. But after coming to work on the 3rd of January (luckily 2nd January was off) I was tired to death. It took me a whole week to recuperate.
Now I promised to myself I would spend coming holidays more laid back. I remember one time I asked my friend Lalit what he did for his thanksgiving break (he had 4 days off). He replied “I did nothing for the first two days and stayed home for the next two”. I laughed at that answer and so did my other friends. But now I am craving for spending holidays in such fashion, similar to what I did in Nepal, relax and watch TV.
PS: Firework pictures courtesy of Erika Stelzer
so where did you go and who did you meet? tell tell??
I went to Dallas & Houston, and I guess you already know whom I met. By the way the picture in the blog “In which language you think or dream?” was taken by you (if you remember), two years ago, when you were ready to go to work and I was sound asleep.