{"id":216,"date":"2013-03-31T14:02:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/issa\/?p=216"},"modified":"2013-03-31T14:03:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T18:03:23","slug":"pastels-are-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/issa\/2013\/03\/31\/pastels-are-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastels are everywhere…."},"content":{"rendered":"

by Theodora Hannan, USA<\/em><\/p>\n

Happy Easter! (hop, hop)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Easter Triduum here at Notre Dame, and quite a fine one. The sun is out, the weather is perfect, the hordes of alums and parents are visiting to sit like sardines in the Basilica for hours on end.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve been on campus during the Easter break, since I\u2019m from the Bend: usually my family does attend the Basilica masses, but not this year. My family\u2019s in town visiting from their new home, but I\u2019ve spent most of the weekend on campus with my friends. It\u2019s a bit strange for me, since I\u2019ve never had to deal with the truncated dining hall hours, the quiet of the partially empty dorm, or the sense of being on break (not having spent quite so many hours waiting for the Basilica doors to open).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been nice to have that quiet for my homework, for working on plans for my future, to get some sleep \u2013 but my favorite thing has been how much time I\u2019ve been able to spend with my friends. There are plenty of kids who don\u2019t go home for what\u2019s really only a four-day weekend, but my international friends really don\u2019t have much of an option about staying or not, for the most part. Regardless of the circumstances, it\u2019s been wonderful to spend some free time together with my friends: watching silly romcoms, trips to Kilwins for after-dinner dessert, spending some time discussing abstract and real problems for two hours in the middle of it all. These are the times I\u2019ll remember when I gradu\u2014wait, not using that word just yet. But these are the moments that I value most of all, and basking in them this weekend is the best Easter experience I\u2019ve had.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also wonderful to hear about my friends who have adopted or been adopted by others here. Friends to hang with in Chicago, local religious services instead of Notre Dame\u2019s, foster parents here in America; these are the most touching things over this weekend for me, seeing how all of my international friends, Catholic or not, have made themselves at home here, who can feel like they belong on a family-oriented holiday. They are most certainly a part of my family, and I\u2019m so glad they\u2019ve chosen to be here with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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