We all went our own ways for Thanksgiving break. After a five day vacation, returning back to school should feel easy. We weren't gone for that long anyhow. However, five days is just long enough to get into a routine of being on vacation. It is also long enough for a lot to take place and for the need to update your friends on your vacation.
When I came back from Thanksgiving break, I spent my Sunday as I would any other Sunday of the semester - doing work that hadn't been done previously that week or during the weekend. I woke up Monday still sleepy from having to get up earlier than I had all break. So far, I had clicked right into the routine of my typical college-life as before.
One thing that I noticed is that five days is a long time to retrace and tell your friends all the little funny things that happened. Therefore, we often just skim over the broad actions and skip the details. Sometimes the details in life are what make things so special and unique to us. However to tell someone all of the little details and peculiarities that you experience, you must talk to them quite frequently.
Over holiday breaks, we reintroduce ourselves into an alternate community with our families. We leave our college community for a short while. Staying in contact over that break is important. Otherwise we will lose touch of the little details of people's lives that we often engage with on a daily basis.
Nonetheless if we don't remain in contact with people, relationships and interactions will click into place when we come back. When we have such strong friendships, it is hard to lose that in such a short period of time. If they are important to us, we will make the effort. So while we may have immediate interaction with a different community at school and over the holidays, our communities that we "take a break" from are still there for us, even if they aren't physically present.
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