Ok,
Before I start, let me say what I was thankful for this year. I was thankful for a loving family. I'm thankful that I'm alive and healthy. I'm thankful that I have the opportunity to attend a great b-school. I'm thankful that despite all of the drama I've been through that I have not been broken.
Now I just need to vent. Thanksgiving started off great, my sister and I split the time between my mothers side of the fam and my father's side. It's always good to see everyone and on top of that it's one of the rare occasions that I get to get some home cooked Jamaican food from my grandmother, I think that's one of the things I miss most about Boston.
I left my sister at my aunt's house and drove back to my mothers house content and stuffed, happy to have the time away from school but dreading the upcoming week because of everything I knew was due. I went to sleep and planned to leave Friday morning to come back to NYC.
At about 3 am my mother got a phone call. My sister and cousin, went out to a club and ran into my cousin's ex. This... (please forgive me ya'll this is hard for me to type) He and my cousin got into a fist fight...yeah...he fought a girl, but not only that, his current girl and her friends jumped in. Here's the clincher this poor excuse for a human being stabbed my cousin. My sister got slashed as she tried to pull him off of her. So this is the phonecall we get at 3am.
I want to say that I'm also thankful for the fact that this could have turned out much worse than it did. My cousin is alive, although she did have to get 50 stitches to her face and neck, but she could have died. And my sister escaped only needing stitches to her arm. Like I said, could've been much worse.
The semester is wrapping up, it's unreal. I feel like I never got a chance to get my arms around it all. But it's cool. I'm glad I'm doing this weblog too it helps to remind me of the things I've been through. As I look on these experiences (check my earlier posts) I know that not many if any of my classmates have gone through this much outside of school, but here I am still holding it down. Thank God. And I know that all of these experiences will just make me a stronger person.
ok ya'll that's it for now. Thank you to those of you who post your comments, sometimes I do wonder if anyone reads this besides me.
until next time