Between Thanksgiving and Christmas

The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is always a very festive and exciting couple weeks of school. Once November is here, the students start to anticipate Thanksgiving Break. That is the first long break since school had started. So as you can imagine, it couldn’t get here soon enough. There were also some other days off of school, because of the end of the first quarter and parent/ teacher conferences. This time away gave the students and staff a good amount of time to rest and take it easy after a few months of school.

After Thanksgiving Break and the other days off, it is hard to get back into the school routine. After sleeping in and just hanging out all day, it usually takes a while to get used to the absence of those luxuries. Once breaks are over, the next awaited break is Christmas Break. Besides Spring Break and Mid-Winter Break, that is one of the longest breaks of the entire school year. These pauses during school are only four weeks apart too! As Christmas draws nearer, everyone starts anticipating its coming more and more. Lots of teachers decorate their rooms for the holiday. Mrs. Stenberg, Mrs. Mann, Mrs. Saum, Mrs. Plumhoff, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Langdon are some of the teachers who have the Christmas spirit and rooms to match. When a person walks in their room, they are met with holly, ivy, flashing bells, colorful ornaments, paper garlands, “hugging-only” mistletoe, Charlie Brown decorations, and other cool accessories. Even some of the elementary teachers get in on it too. In addition to all of this, Christmas music will be playing in the hallways. So as the whole school is getting ready to celebrate Jesus’s birth and the upcoming concerts, it is kind of hard to stay focused on work. However hard it may seem, we all have to hang in there until Christmas.

Thanksgiving and Christmas are fun times to be at CCS, and I wouldn’t ever want to miss it. Between the Christmas concerts and parties, it’s hard to have a “Scrooge” attitude. This time between the holidays is exciting and fun, especially as we prepare to celebrate the birth of our Savior.

Megan Mitchell, Freshman