过节•儿子•大学

时间过得真快，感恩节就这么过去了。

这是儿子读大学后第一次回家，也就没有做什么大的计划。大人小孩一起蜗居在家，吃饭，睡觉，爬山，看电影，玩游戏，也算是其乐融融吧。

当然购物也是其中一项，需要去一家店购买衣服，感恩节晚上十二点钟开门，店铺全场打对折。Deal是不错，可是那是午夜时分，正是开始做美梦的时刻啊。

老公体贴，儿子孝顺，自告奋勇去店铺等开门。两个男人去购买衣服。。。不那么放心，可是想想等在凛冽的寒风中的滋味，得了，反正不就是买一堆外套吗，不至于是一件超难度的事情吧，乐得窝在温暖的家中享享大小男人的福。我于是列了一张购物清单，姓名，有男有女，尺寸，有大有小。

第二天醒来，清点大包的衣服，数量和尺寸都对。当然，男人购物必有一失，毛病出在哪儿呢？全部是清一色的藏青，除了儿子为他自己买的那一件----这还可以容忍。但是，全部是清一色的女式，除了儿子为他自己买的那一件----这可咋办啊？哈哈！

儿子回家过感恩节，女儿特别高兴，老爸老妈就甭提了。但是儿子的时间是分布型的，除了家庭，还有他那久未见面的同学，一去就是大半天的聚会。。。

还算不错，在与朋友网聊的间隙，儿子给妈妈写了一篇小文，汇报大学第一学期的生活。

First quarter at UC Davis has definitely been a new experience. The most obvious change was college itself. Until that point, I lived at home and hadn’t spent longer than a week or two away from it without my family. The only person I knew after my parents left was my roommate. Getting to know other people turned out to be pretty easy, as everyone wanted to get to know each other. Events also made this easier with free arcade games as well.

My dorm room was much easier to get used to than I thought. At first, it was really different from what I expected because I had stayed at a Davis dorm before at Tercero and the setup was totally different (different type of bed, wooden desks and wooden dresser). The other big difference of the dorm is that our room opens and automatically closes like a hotel room. This is normally no problem because I keep my key with me at all times. Once this quarter in the middle of the night I forgot to bring the key with me, which locked me out of my room for 2 hours before I found a phone to get the residential advisor to open the door for me.

When classes started, I expected them to be similar to high school, but on a bigger scale. In a way it was, there were still lectures and everything and they did last longer. However, there is a lot more freedom. Professors often give breaks in the middle and there are random breaks where the professor suddenly breaks the stress in the class by throwing things across the room.

In addition to the classes, I had to get used to the town of Davis. Since UC Davis had everything I really needed to function, it took a while to get used to where everything was because I only went to a specific part once a week. There was one time when we were hungry and my roommate had the idea to go to McDonald’s since it was only a few blocks down the street. Little did we know, it was actually farther than we thought, and ended up to be 1 mile down the road. When we finally got to McDonald’s, it started pouring. We ended being stuck at McDonalds until it closed at 10 pm (which was really weird for a McDonald’s) and then walking back to our dorm in heavy rain.

Overall college took some time getting used to, but in the end is its own experience. Davis offered a new environment to get used to, as well as a new type of class, where professors can teach in their own way with whatever works for them. This in turn reflects the general theme of my life at Davis thus far, exploring new areas and changing things up.