“I am so extremely grateful that I’ve been able to stay busy and to still pursue the one thing I love.”

What are you grateful for this week? Has anything been particularly difficult this week? I would say I’m just being a student in general is really difficult right now because mentally I’m checked out, but I can’t be because we still have assignments and stuff due. I still have to teach my class tomorrow, and then I still have conversation hours. So I’m not really done until the last possible minute on Wednesday. But mentally I’m just not — checked — I’m just not here anymore. I want to be done. I’m ready for the semester to be over. It’s been really really draining the past couple months. But in the same light, I am so extremely grateful that I’ve been able to stay busy and to still pursue the thing that I love, which is teaching Spanish and Linguistics. And I’m just really grateful for the opportunity to be with my family because if I had been at school or if things had sort of been whatever type of normal or if the university hadn’t canceled classes and I was looking to come home for Thanksgiving, I wouldn’t necessarily be able to do that by not putting my parents — with not putting my parents at risk. So I’m extremely grateful, that I am home that we are all — that we are all healthy, that we will be able to spend Thanksgiving together.