The pretty spring break

It has stopped snowing and I can't tell you how much better I feel. The increasing temperatures have a soothing effect on me. I was fascinated by snow until I experienced it here. The warmth of the sun feels so heaven after four months. It feels like I am back home in Mumbai. The Mumbai heat is different though. But the rains here make me feel nostalgic.

Now is the time to enjoy the weather and to add to the excitement, we have also been given a spring break. But guess what? For me, it is actually a test of how powerfully I can curb my temptations to rest and enjoy, since we have two assignments due after the spring break along with a midterm waiting round the corner. And to make it worse, I found out, I am very bad at focussing on studies during breaks, since all I have done till now is waste time watching videos and getting sleep, thinking that I need a break too and since I am not going out anywhere, I need to relax my mind in some way. I can't tell you how sad this all is! All I see around me now is people having a walk or run with their pets and enjoying the sun and here I am at home stuck up with my "all time partner" - my laptop, doing my assignments and watching videos, not to mention my mind wandering outside half of the time remembering the days I used to hangout with my friends back at home. How I wish they were here!

So, I am determined not to let the spring break go just like that, because I am very sure I will be cribbing and craving for it later. But the thing I find most difficult to get here when it comes to enjoying, is company for the things I would like to enjoy. Everyone has some or the other thing lined up and you cannot blame them. And when they are done, YOU are bound to have it. So you end up going nowhere. But for a change, for the first time, it turned out, my friends here have the time, that too all at the same time , can you imagine? That's a miracle for me and to add to the surprise, they all want to go to the same place - the famous Baltimore aquarium , one of the places I am dying to visit too. Especially the dolphin show which I have heard is very famous. I feel ashamed to say that its been more than six months here and I haven't visited the aquarium yet. Its like staying in Agra and not visiting the Taj Mahal.

I can't wait to give my eyes a treat with the pretty dolphins swimming and diving. Aah! Hope to get there soon and hope it doesn't get cancelled now as it usually did for a couple of times before. More about it after I visit it... hopefully! (keeping my fingers crossed this time) :)