Happy Holidays: From Wayne 132

Mercyhurst Colored Christmas Tree

So my roommates and I are back at the Hurst and are very excited to start a new academic term. The winter term sometimes gets a bad rap, but it is actually my favorite term out of all three of them! So while most students would be relaxing their last couple of days before the term starts, my roommates and I could not resist getting into the holiday spirit. Today we decorated out entire apartment in Christmas cheer. So as you can imagine, being an apartment of four guys we are already at a creative difficulty when it comes to decorating, but in the end our apartment turned out looking really great! The first thing we did was set up the Christmas tree. Our tree is just a little artificial one with lights, blue snowflakes and silver garland. We couldn't all decide on (or find for that matter) an appropriate tree topper, so we settled on a Santa hat for the top of our tree.

Christmas in our living room. 

After adding the finishing touches on our Christmas tree, it was time to cover the living room and kitchen in lights. Again, we really don't actually know what we are doing when it comes to decorating, so you will see what a crazy Christmas mess our apartment is in. We added white lights to the ceiling of our living and dinning room area. Since we were not really sure how to do the lights, my roommate Joe suggested we just zigzagged them back and forth along the ceiling. The finish project looks pretty good if I say so myself!

The "Christmas" Kitchen 

As if that was not enough lights in one college apartment, we added even more lights to the kitchen and counter areas. At this point, we ran out of traditional white lights and went for a more "green" outlet and added brightly colored LED lights (Mercyhurst is a very green campus so we are just doing our part). The finished project is one very VERY decked for the holidays Mercyhurst College apartment. Even though sometimes guys get flack when it comes to decorating, my college roommates and I did a great job of jumping "snow boots" first into the holiday season!

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas, Carpe Diem everyday!
~Jeremy