Before. We'd usually try to have like...a class Christmas party before everyone spent the holidays back home, for example.

[They'd decorate the dorms, have a tree, eat a bunch of food....it was really fun.

He hadn't realized until now how much he missed it.]

It was a lot of fun. I'm hoping we'll get chances to do it more, when I get home.

[Implying he's even alive when he gets back hahahaa]