My Outlook for 2023

I hope 2023 shows me what career I want to have after I graduate. Since I have a passion for writing in my spare time, I am hoping to get a job that mainly uses this passion. I understand that having information about every aspect of your life isn't always possible, but I hope someday soon that I know what my calling is. I have set two New Year’s Resolutions for 2023. The resolutions that I set for this year include getting to know my classmates better from previous Communication courses. Also, working more on not let little things in life bother me so much because more than half of the time they really aren’t the most stressful things going on. My goals for 2023 include: Keeping my grades up, getting to know my new classmates, and hopefully figure out what I want to do as a career. 

For Christmas last year, my parents and I went to the Trinidad and Tobago, which are two islands in the Caribbean. Since most of my family lives in the Caribbean, we decided to spend Christmas with my mother’s as well as my father’s side of the family. My mother was born in Trinidad, and my father was born in Tobago. While in Tobago, my parents and I decided to visit places on the island that we haven't really explored before on previous vacations, whether it be Christmas or summer. These places include Grange Bay-Tobago, Speyside-Tobago, and Charlotteville-Tobago.  

Days before my family left for the Caribbean, my father came up with the idea that my cousins and I, as well as uncles and aunts in our family could perform a family Christmas concert on Christmas evening. He has always known how musically talented my mother’s side of the family is, whether it be playing musical instruments or singing, so he thought this would be a great way to showcase our musical talents during the Christmas break. My relatives loved the idea and we all decided to come up with Christmas songs we could play, as well as which instrument, we would use. I decided to play “Oh Holy Night” on the steelpan. For those of you who aren’t familiar with this instrument, the steelpan is a percussion instrument made from metal industrial drums, and its Trinidad and Tobago’s national instrument.