Students making plans to head home for the holidays | The Tangerine

By Candace Myers & Sonitda Heng

With the holiday break approaching, students are making arrangements to head back home to spend the holidays with their families. However, some still have no idea what to do during their break. Some students are going to travel, visit friends and family and, some are going to stay in Utica.

Sophomore Nikolette LaZore a health studies/ PT major is excited to go home and has made several plans for the break.

?I?m very excited for break to have a rest with all of the school work that I have been doing,? LaZore said. ?I am just planning on having a nice relaxing break before the second semester starts up.?

A few of LaZore?s plans are to work during the break and to hang out with some friends.

?I plan on working at my job at Macy?s for a majority of break because it gets crazy in there the weeks before Christmas,? LaZore said. ?I also plan on hanging out with my friends who will be coming home for break from college.?

Something exciting LaZore plans to do is learn to snowboard.

?I would like to learn to snowboard this year; I have always wanted to and put off learning every year.?

Madison Bayer, a sophomore majoring in nursing, has a great plan for her winter break, which includes her 21st birthday.

?This winter break, I?m going home to Long Island and hanging out with my friends and family,? Bayer said.

Things do not end there for Bayer.

?For New Year?s, my friends and I are going to Atlantic City for my 21st birthday. It should be a lot of fun and I?m very excited for the trip,? Bayer said.

Senior Alex Titus, a criminal justice major, does not have a concrete plan of what his break will consist of.

?Right now I have no concrete plan for traveling yet, but I?m just going to spend much time with family,? Titus said.

However, Titus is going to make time for relaxation.

?I plan to go home and catch up on some much needed sleep and also spend some time with family and friends as well as hanging out in the city because I?m from Long Island,? Titus said.

Sophomore Courtney May, a cyber-security major, is planning to take a family vacation.

?As a family, we are going to Colorado to spend Christmas there because my sister is there, so we?ll go to visit her and we?ll be together as a family,? May said.

However, May?s vacation will be cut short when she has to return to Utica College.

?I have to be back at school actually on the 29th because I play hockey and we have a game on the second, so I guess my break will be spent here in Utica,? May said.

Sophomore Justine Gordon, who majors in biology and has a concentration in pre-med, will have an interesting winter break. She is going to spend her winter break doing some volunteer job in a hospital.

?During the winter break, I?ll be working and volunteering at New York Presbyterian Hospital because I want to be a doctor,? Gordon said. ?I used to volunteer there all through high school for about two years [?] so I?m gonna volunteer there and I work at Toys ?R? Us,? Gordon said.

Junior Richard Tehan, a chemistry major, plans to make time for both research and family during the Christmas break.

?I?m going to be doing some research about biochemistry,? Tehan said. ?I?m going to celebrate Christmas with my family of course.?

Some students like senior Iman Humes, a major in government and politics, will go to visit family out of the country. Iman is going to travel to visit her family in Central America.

?I?m going to Belize,? Humes said. ?I?m going to spend time with old friends and family there.?

While it is not an issue for students who live in the city or other states to get home, some people are wondering what international students are doing during the break.

Some international students have made arrangements to head back home to their countries to spend time with family before the spring semester rolls around, while others plan to use this time to tour the states.

Sophomore Abdullah Alrobian plans to go back home to Saudi Arabia for the holiday break for relaxation.

?I plan to hang out with the family? and go to the dessert and go out with my friends to play soccer,? Alrobian said.

Alrobian is looking forward to heading home however he has a long trip ahead of him.? There are four lay overs on his flight to get home.

?My flight took four stops to get home. From Syracuse, to New York City, to Stompol, to Riau then I drive to my city,? Alorbian said.

For Junior Ngoc Le it takes her 25 hours to get back home to Vietnam. However, she is still excited and when she lands, she plans to relax and visit her family.

?I plan to hang around with my family and then visit somewhere that I did not go to yet,? Le said.

Sophomore Tuuli Vanhanen also plans to go back home for the break to Finland, but she is not sure if she will return to UC.

?I don?t know if I?m coming back,? Vanhanen said.

Like her peers, Vanhanen plans to visit her friends and relatives during the break and also go skiing and clubbing.

Source: http://uctangerine.com/students-making-plans-to-head-home-for-the-holidays/

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