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What students are doing over the holidays
By Charles Lindley
Whalesong Contributor
While some UAS
students are planning to return home or go on vacation, others are
looking forward to (or dreading) a Christmas spent away from hearth,
home, and family. The residents of apartment G-5 could offer insight
into the life of an undergraduate student in Alaska.
Take Student Senator Jeff Quick (also known as Q), who
recently married the former Miss Sulie Croan. They’re going
on their honeymoon over the Christmas break before moving to Orange
County, Calif. in the spring. The Quicks will be on a tropical cruise
through the Caribbean and spend their first Christmas together,
far away from both their families.
Fewer may know of the newest addition to the G-5 family, Jeremy
Josiah Johnson (a.k.a. J-cubed). Johnson is originally from Kentucky
but has made quite a home for himself here in Juneau. He’s
worked at Rainbow Foods for the past five months and is becoming
a familiar sight for those students seeking to eat organic foods.
“This is my first Christmas away from family, but
I am looking forward to celebrating a new friend’s birthday,”
Johnson said.
Now we come to Dambo Daniel Sakala, D-squared, who will
be traveling first to the “Deep South” to visit Georgia,
before continuing on to Kent, England to be with some of his family.
This is Sakala’s second Christmas since he left Zambia to attend
UAS and this will be his first trip outside of Alaska since his
arrival in the United States back in August of 2001.
While some students plan to leave UAS only for the break,
others will be absent for much longer. Student Senator Micah Nelson
will be traveling to Sweden to spend a semester abroad for the spring
of 2003. Katie Tripp will be leaving any day now for Wyoming to
take care of family business and looks forward to seeing her boyfriend
again (whom she met here last year).
“It’s been great but you never know what’s
going to come up next,” said Tripp when asked about her experience
here at UAS.
Some students don’t want to leave Juneau for the
break. Natalie Taylor has realized the monetary benefits of remaining
here, and working full time without having to worry about school.
She plans on making some extra cash instead of going home to Prince
of Wales Island.
And what about those students who grew up here in Juneau
or those whose family lives here now, what will their plans entail?
Some are counting on visiting friends and relatives in the Lower
48, such as Pat Tyner, who grew up in Juneau and his mom still lives
here.
“I’m going to go down to Washington to fish steelhead
with my Dad,” Tyner said.
Others are looking forward to a vacation of other sorts. Jessica
Lorenz is looking forward to seeing returning friends attending
school out of state, reading a good book and desires to go snowshoeing,
cross-country skiing and snow machining.
Wherever you plan on spending your holidays, make it
the best. So from J3, D2, Q, and C4 (myself, Charles Daniel Lindley,
IV, thus the C4), which equals the whole G-5 family, have a Merry
Christmas!
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