[katehlouise]

I'll be going home... It's Christmas!

[Shokata]

Yup, I'll be travelling this year - one hour by train + 3 hour flight + 1h drive door to door. I haven't spent Christmas with my family for the past four years as I was living on the other side of the globe but being so close now I have no excuse :'D

[PhoenixFortune]

I got home every Christmas, as soon as term ends. I make sure all my packing is done the day before, pack up my car in the morning before the last lectures, and then the moment they're over I start the 2 hour journey home. Christmas is a huge family thing for us, so if I missed it to stay in my uni city my family would probably take it as a personal insult (not that I'd want to, as I'd probably be all alone)!

In 2010 when we had all that snow in mid-December, me and my coursemates promised each other that if we were snowed in and couldn't get home for Christmas, we would trek to one of our houses and have a makeshift Christmas dinner! Luckily we missed the snow by one day, so we all got home okay.

Some of the international students didn't go home for Christmas, because they don't celebrate it and can't warrant the expense (at my uni we only get 2 weeks for the Christmas holidays, so by the time they flew home, they would only have a few days there before having to fly back again).

[Goody2Shoes-x]

I am pondering staying at uni for Christmas, but that's more due to messy family circumstances. Normally I'd go home.

[TheJeebs]

i go home for christmas, easter and most of summer. stayed at home for new year in first year, have stayed at uni for new year the last couple of years.

[PinguN18]

Takes me 6 1/2 hours to get home. Its only 200 miles but my home town and uni town are both stupidly hard to get too. I go home for xmas every year. I don't go home very often but i try to make sure I book train tickets a month or two in advance and if its short notice just endure 12 hours on the coach because I really can't justify spending over £80 for a off-peak return.

My first year, I was meant to stay for a 1 week, after term finished, by Day 2 I decided to find the cheapest way for me to get home within the next two days, even if it took me days. Halls when so ridiculously eery, it was so so quite. I remember going to say bye to my friend, who's room was on the ground floor from my room on the 1st and got so freaked out. All the lights are on motion sensors and I turned every single one of them on. Including the main entrance and stairs lights which are permanently on usually. So yes, I definitely recommend going home for xmas unless you really really can't because of work commitments and such like.

[DontBeJelBeReem]

Essex - Warwick. Several different trains and maybe even a bus, but it's only about 4 hours in total

[twinlensreflex]

I really don't want to come home for new years, but it'll be the only time I can collect my A2 work, so I'll have to be home for Christmas at least until the 3rd of January :L it might be a bit odd staying at uni for Christmas that'll be 350 miles door to door.

[lilyxx]

(Original post by Goody2Shoes-x)
I am pondering staying at uni for Christmas, but that's more due to messy family circumstances. Normally I'd go home.

Yeah, so am I tbh. I dont really get on with my family except my brother whos going to be away for all of the holidays so i dont want to go home!

[abbyheat]

When I was at Uni in Reading, I worked in retail so worked right over Christmas. My mum decided that she would spend Christmas in Sheffield with my brother. At the last minute on Christmas Eve I decided I didn't want to spend Xmas on my own so hotfooted it to the station after work, arrived into Paddington, legged it across London and got the last train out to Sheffield. I love Christmas!


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[xoxAngel_Kxox]

I can't imagine not being at home for Christmas to be honest. Out of everyone in our halls (about 100 people in our block) only one of them stayed over the holidays, and that was because he didn't have a family. Quite sad really. But ultimately it's up to you. If you're not really a big celebrator of Christmas then I don't think there's anything wrong with staying in halls, it's up to you.

A lot of people went back to uni for New Year, as we had to be back on the 3rd Jan anyway so people just went back early to get the parties.

[Joinedup]

Halls are going to be pretty empty and dismal places over xmas... Assuming the uni don't just completely shut them down.

[grim_marmazet]

Im off to uni this September, but I don't think i'll be home for xmas. My family are half Italian, so we'd have huge family christmas' but my Nan passed away from cancer this year, so the family cohesion is gone. My Mum said she'd do a small christmas with me & my brothers, but I don't really get on with any of them, and hopefully i'll be working as much as possible to get some more money for the new year.
I may go back just for christmas day though, I haven't decided yet.

[lilyxx]

What dates do people usually go home between christmas?

[mazzie111]

Im always away for xmas - at boyfriends house or somewhere but tend to come back due to January exams etc.

[FalsettoSlumber]

I think I may be an unusual case, haha! I literally live twenty minutes away from my parents, so forget going home for just holidays, I pretty much go home every weekend! I'm really close to my parents, and I do my grandma's cleaning for a bit of extra money each week, so I see a lot of my family on a weekly basis. I don't think I could have gone to a far away uni; I'm so close to my parents tat I get easily very homesick.

[Jippet]

(Original post by lilyxx)
What dates do people usually go home between christmas?

I'm pretty sure courses stop around the 10th December (mine is the 8th) but I dunno if people hang around


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[Miahrose]

Most people tend to but I know a few people that got jobs, so they just went home for Christmas & Boxing Day.

[laurie:)]

i will, its a 6/7 hour train journey, or a 9 hour coach, but i will come home for christmas!! it'd be so lonely if i stayed