For this winter season, Her Campus Buffalo is actually on break! Therefore we do not
have any plans for the festive season, as our members will be spending time with their loved
ones celebrating the holidays. Although before the start of the spring semester, we will be
having a pre-spring semester meeting to voice our goals for our chapter this semester and
organize a cohesive schedule. We are looking forward to recruiting new members and hosting
more events!
To celebrate this festive season, I will be staying home with my family and celebrating
Christmas. Due to COVID, we cannot have a large gathering as we normally would, but we are
still grateful to be able to spend it with our immediate family. Usually leading up to Christmas
my family listens to Christmas music, watches Christmas movies, bakes cookies, and makes the
house cozy by decorating it with lights and festive candles. On Christmas day, we typically open
presents, have a delicious breakfast, then just hang around and watch movies or play games until
dinner! Christmas dinners are always the best in my household, and I’m really excited to stuff
my face to be honest.
Here is what one of our team members, Tiffany, is doing for the holidays:
For this festive season I hope to spend it with family indoors. This pandemic has changed
everyone’s daily life drastically but the holidays are a time to take a break from everything and
spend it with loved ones, safely of course!
This is what Kiana is doing for break: This year I will be going to one of my aunt’s houses to celebrate Christmas.
We do secret Santa every year and I can’t wait to see who I have this year. This past year, I
have learned a lot. With being trapped inside and not being able to get as
much social interaction as we used to, I have learned how to explore new interests and passions.
I have also become more comfortable with being by myself. I am the type of person to
constantly distract myself with always doing tasks or activities to get my mind off of things, but
sometimes that can do more harm than good. So throughout this pandemic, I have become better
at sitting with myself and being more mindful.
Here is what one of our team members, Brianna, has learned from this crazy year:
The more I reflect on this past year, the more I realize how
much I learned about myself during this pandemic. I was able to explore interests I never really
had the time to indulge in, and I was able to better myself in so many different ways. COVID
definitely allowed me to take a step back and really evaluate what I want to do, and what I want
to change and gave me the opportunity to make it happen.
Here’s a response from Tiffany,
Through this difficult year of 2020 I’ve learned that I am blessed with such an amazing support
system from all my loved ones and I hope that I have been equally as amazing for support as
they have been for me. Although this year has been extremely tough I hope everyone realizes
how truly blessed they are as there is always someone who has it worse.
Here are Kiana’s thoughts on COVID: The most difficult thing about this Christmas and the pandemic is not being
able to go out in public and celebrate. I don’t want to risk giving or getting the virus while being
out in a crowd. For the new year, I am looking forward to leaving 2020 behind. Although coronavirus
won’t magically disappear (as I’m sure all of us would like it to), we can begin 2021 with a new
outlook and can hopefully improve and move past the troubles of this past year. As a country,
America has been through the ringer in 2020. I am hoping that through the hardships and
tragedies, Americans can become more educated on systemic racism and police brutality. These
issues have finally been brought to the forefront this year, and I can only hope people will finally
start paying attention and taking action. I hope that people continue to educate themselves and
realize how it is a privilege to be white in America.
Here is Tiffany’s outlook on the new year:
In the New Year I hope to further my goals and aspirations and continue to work on myself. And
of course I hope 2021 will be a better year than 2020 has been.
This is what Kiana is hoping for the new year: In 2021 I am mostly looking
forward to applying all the lessons I’ve learned this year to the following.
All this time spent at home gave me enough time to learn more about
myself and the world and I can’t wait to see how I use this to further blossom into the person I
want to be.
Those are our plans for the New Year! We are all hoping for a significantly better year,
and are more than happy to leave 2020 behind.
This article is part of our three-part Sister Chapter collaboration article series. We love hearing about the lives and experiences of Her Campus writers at other universities around the world.