Business administration and accounting major Rochelle O’Donnell-Juarez, 33, said, “I pretty much celebrate all breaks, Thanksgiving and Christmas, usually with my friends, family, depending. Because my husband is military, if we have time we’ll celebrate with family. If not, we’ll just celebrate with our friends here in San Diego.”

Cosmetology major, Andy Mills, 36, celebrates the holidays. He said, “It’s a tradition, when we take the train up to San Juan to go visit my cousins for Thanksgiving. Christmas is usually quiet. We celebrate but we just stay in San Diego, just my mom, my dog, and my daughter will come out in some winters.“

Cosmetology major, Chelsea Dell, 21, celebrates during the holidays by traveling to her family’s house in her hometown. She said “I just hang out with my family.”

Cosmetology major and teacher, Maria Simonton, and Tawnya Williams, Cosmetology major, 40 said, “We are returned mothers. Basically we’ve lived our life and now we are returning to education to pursue a career we enjoy and love as a cosmetologist. Both of us have two children and they’re mature and so we’re now engaging in activities that encourage us in life and further our retirement also.”

This is how they celebrated during the Thanksgiving break. Maria said ”first we clean, then we rearrange furniture, and then we put our Christmas tree up while we have our Thanksgiving dinner.”

Psychology major, Cindy Sanchez, 19, said “I just decorate my house with my mom. We just basically put up Christmas lights in the house and they’re like actual Christmas. Christmas eve we go to my dad’s family in Chula Vista, and go visit them and come back home. It’s not really anything like I used to do when I was younger in North Carolina.” This is how they spent their break. Sanchez said ”we basically made the turkey and gossiped, caught up with our family members we haven’t seen in a few months probably.”

Janette Dye-Williams, member services volunteer at Jazz 88.3, said “I didn’t go very far, I just went to Hollywood Hills. Had family that came down from Seattle,and had Thanksgiving in Hollywood Hills. They smoked the turkey for many, many hours, which was good.”

Maintenance Custodian Dwight Lester, 59, said “I’m going to Miami to see my sister on Christmas. I spent the holidays in Georgia with my other sister, in Atlanta.”

Broadcast Engineer Craig Chatfield, 57, said for “Christmas, I have all my kids and grand-kids come to our house and we celebrate with the whole family. We have the big dinner and we play some games and just enjoy each other’s company.”