Home for the holidays

by Brittney Brown

Not all of Windsor’s post-secondary students will be traveling home for the holidays, some now prefer to stay at their residence.

For the break some students have chosen to spend their time volunteering in soup kitchens, other students are traveling home to participate in family traditions.

Elizabeth Robinson, a criminology major at the University of Windsor, has chosen to stay in Windsor for Christmas break this year. Living in North Bay, Ont. Robinson fears she will be snowed in and unable to make the return trip back to the campus. Even though staying in Windsor for the holidays means she is going to miss the birth of her Godchild, she feels that her time volunteering for the local soup kitchen will be almost as gratifying.

Robinson is currently a residence assistant at the Alumni residence. She plans on buying a Christmas tree to share Dec. 25 with the few students who also decide to stay for the holidays.

“You know how you get up and brush your teeth in the morning? Well I wake up and I am an RA,” said Robinson, who is extremely dedicated to her title.

It may have been Robinson’s choice to stay in Windsor for the holidays but for Dane Appleton, a criminology student at the University of Windsor and Shannon Clark, a public relations student at St. Clair College, going home was the obvious choice for them.

“I’m so close to home that it’s not so serious,” says Appleton.

He is used to travelling back and forth from Windsor to Chatham due to the short distance.

Clark has spent most of college away from her family and feels the drive to Toronto is well worth her time.

“Being away from family and friends gets lonely and hard,” said Clark, “I feel comfortable with them I can let loose and be myself.”

Clark says instead of turkey for dinner, they have oxtail, which is a tradition from her Jamaican culture.

Whether at home or abroad, local post-secondary students are finding a way to make the holidays well worth their time.

 

Cutline: A student at St. Clair College, Shannon Clark, waits for her bus at the Windsor Transit Station, Nov. 9.