By: Emily Mulcahey
As another St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone, so has another spring break for Bonaventure students. It is common knowledge to those associated with the campus—and those associated with the whole town of Allegany—that the spring semester is full of festivities for the Bonnies. The January-May months give life to House Crawl, St. Patrick’s Day, Spring Weekend, and spring break. Spring break is listed last because, yes, it is by far the best.
If you do it right, that is.
After months of angry customers, dropping dishes and the never ending screaming of my eccentric boss, I finally had waited enough tables to save the money. I treated my savings as my own personal holy grail, my golden egg, whichever metaphor best fits how sacred it was to me. I had finally hit the mother load, and I was going on spring break with my friends. Next stop, Jamaica.
When March came around, myself and three friends traded our gloves for sunglasses and sunscreen and flew off into the sunset (okay, sunrise…our flight left at 5 a.m.). The next time we touched the ground, we had sandals on our feet and drinks in our hands and we spent a week in tropical paradise. We climbed waterfalls, snorkeled on a coral reef and finished things off at Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville. If I could do it all again, I wouldn’t change a thing…except maybe convince a higher power to extend the length of spring break to perhaps…a month?
For me, it was an all-inclusive trip to Jamaica. For a handful of my other friends, it was a wild ride to Panama City Beach, Florida. No matter where we went, we came back with two things in common: a tan (or sunburn for the unfortunates like me) and enough stories to keep us up until all hours of the night.
Our Jamaica crew made one payment, which served as our ticket to be treated like queens all week… queens who ate and drank like bachelors in Vegas.
Six days of unlimited drinks, food, and sun…$1000. Doing it with some of my best friends…priceless.
Really, getting away from the cold of Allegany for any length of time is an opportunity that should never be passed up.
So, the best advice I can give you is: save your money, and go somewhere awesome with your friends while you’re in college because it’s worth it. After you graduate, you and your friends will never again have the same exact break and be able to go act like idiots on a beach somewhere all day for a week. Not to mention, after college that type of behavior is no longer socially acceptable. People will just think you’re some kind of weirdo.
Don’t be a weirdo. Go on spring break in college. For seniors, it’s a perfect way to cap off an amazing four years, and for the rest…just do it to escape the cold.
Emily Mulcahey is a staff writer for The Bona
Venture. Her email is mulcahek12@bonaventure.edu
