WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.539 --> 00:00:02.509 Yeah, I’m really excited for Thanksgiving. 00:00:02.509 --> 00:00:05.690 I’m excited to see my family again and be home with them for a little bit. 00:00:05.690 --> 00:00:09.150 Things are okay, it's been a little bit quiet on grounds as folks are starting to head home. 00:00:09.150 --> 00:00:12.280 I think everyone’s trying to relax after a rough semester. 00:00:12.280 --> 00:00:16.460 It’s been a long two months, especially because we're nursing students, so we really 00:00:16.460 --> 00:00:17.500 haven't gotten a break yet. 00:00:17.500 --> 00:00:20.540 We all need a break from school, so. 00:00:20.540 --> 00:00:25.099 I'm excited to go home but also, I'm a little bit nervous about traveling. 00:00:25.099 --> 00:00:30.480 I also think there’s a lot of anxiety around going home because we've been here for so 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:33.060 long and then going home to family it’s a little nervous. 00:00:33.060 --> 00:00:38.720 I am a little sad about Thanksgiving this year because I can't be with my grandma or 00:00:38.720 --> 00:00:40.520 my aunts and uncles which is a little disappointing. 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:45.490 I'm going to be spending Thanksgiving with my friends, my quarantine pod, and really 00:00:45.490 --> 00:00:48.730 being grateful for the people I have here at my second home. 00:00:48.730 --> 00:00:52.950 This is my dog, Penney, I’m watching her for a few days and I’m really grateful for 00:00:52.950 --> 00:00:53.950 her. 00:00:53.950 --> 00:00:59.720 I’m grateful that there's still a lot of stability in the world given the incredible 00:00:59.720 --> 00:01:00.930 circumstances. 00:01:00.930 --> 00:01:04.989 As a scientist, it’s a super rewarding time to be doing infectious disease research. 00:01:04.989 --> 00:01:09.360 I'm just really happy with the news over the last week from Pfizer and Moderna that there's 00:01:09.360 --> 00:01:11.700 a vaccine that’s more than 90% effective. 00:01:11.700 --> 00:01:16.406 I’m grateful I haven't gotten sick yet, I haven’t caught the Corona, been dipping 00:01:16.406 --> 00:01:17.406 and dodging. 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:21.650 I’m also really grateful that I'll be able to spend the holiday season with my family. 00:01:21.650 --> 00:01:26.240 I’m really grateful for my parents, they’re all the way out in California so I've just 00:01:26.240 --> 00:01:29.460 been calling them a lot this year and it's been really nice. 00:01:29.460 --> 00:01:35.560 I think it's important to be grateful like, in general just like appreciate the small 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:36.560 things. 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:40.990 Given the vast majority of human history, we live in truly amazing times and I kind 00:01:40.990 --> 00:01:42.799 of forget about that a lot recently. 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:48.370 Sometimes we don't recognize the things that we do have until we don't have them. 00:01:48.370 --> 00:01:52.670 We often talk about gratitude in our nursing classes about how it will lead to better resiliency, 00:01:52.670 --> 00:01:57.950 and how, you just live so much of your life not noticing the good, and when you are intentional 00:01:57.950 --> 00:02:00.619 about that gratitude, you actually realize that life’s not that bad. 00:02:00.619 --> 00:02:05.610 We have this chance to have this learning experience on Earth and like, everything around 00:02:05.610 --> 00:02:08.979 us is something that we can take and you know, try to make our communities better try to 00:02:08.979 --> 00:02:10.319 make ourselves better as people. 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:11.989 I don’t know, I try to hold onto that. 00:02:11.989 --> 00:02:13.449 It’s easy to forget, sometimes.