Mexico celebrates Christmas by they eat a special cake called “Rosca De Reyes” (Thee Kings Cake) and midnight of Christmas Eve many people go to a Midnight Mass Service also known as “Misa De Gallo” (Mass of the Rooster). Also there were a lot of fireworks on Christmas. In the Dominican Republic they celebrate Christmas by they will have a family gathering and dinner, and they will have fireworks. In America Christmas is celebrated by Christmas trees are a main source of Christmas decoration and gifts are exchanged with family and friends.…
My sisters and I decorate eggs and break them on our family’s heads at our family reunion. My mom and aunt buy plastic eggs and hide them for everyone to find; some of the eggs have money inside. They also buy piñatas and my cousins and I break the piñatas. For food we just have a cookout outside and there’s usually cake too. During Easter, we have a lot of fun with the…
We get together and cook different types of foods that we enjoy ourselves and donate to the temple as a tradition. My family and I usually go to the temple and gather with others to celebrate. To celebrate we pray and distribute the donated food amongst everybody and the evenings are filled with performances, mostly singing and dancing, by various people of a variety of ages. After the performances are over we eat dinner and talk.…
The next morning we all get up and early around nine in the morning to finish all of the food and set up the dinner table. We usually finish everything around noon and then we are ready to eat. Many of our family members and friends from both sides of my family come over to eat with at my home. Before we eat, we pray and each of us announce what we are thankful for this year. We then all sit around the table and eat.…
What are your families traditions for Thanksgiving? Everyone throughout the world has there own very special way of spending their Thanksgiving. Weather it is staying home and having a small dinner with the family; or going out to other family members houses. Some families dress up and go to a million different places to see family and close friends. Some people decide to stay home and eat a small dinner.…
While we are making breakfast, Christmas music is put on. Our family laughs and jokes and sings to the music. The aroma of sweet pancakes fills our house. My family and I all sit down at the dining table and give a prayer of thanks.…
Every Thanksgiving (the fourth thursday of November) my family comes together at my grandmas house to give thanks. Everyone has their own way of celebrating thanksgiving and going to tell you how my family does Thanksgiving. The first thing we do for thanksgiving is get together at my grandma's house in the afternoon.…
Thanksgiving When it comes to my family, we have very many traditions on Thanksgiving. Of course, these few traditions are important. These traditions have been in our family for decades. Thanksgiving is what I will tell you about, along with the traditions we have on this holiday. Eagerly, I will tell you about our turkey tradition.…
Thanksgiving Every 4th thursday of November my family is very thankful even though sometimes it can end up bad in the middle of the day. It is usually the older kids that ruin things because when me and my cousin are playing football they ruin our game on purpose. They usually do it before we're going to go and eat. Every thanksgiving day we meet up with or family members at one of my uncle’s house and have a thanksgiving party.…
Then firecrackers and cherry bombs start exploding! And they go on all night! Usually the gifts are new clothes. Another tradition is putting decorations on Christmas trees. Putting up nativity scenes are signs of Christ’s birth.…
that’s been passed on for years, or one that you’ve started to make a tradition. It’s what makes every family different. Some families do the same traditions, such as Christmas, Halloween etc., although some people don’t celebrate those, it’s alright, because not everyone has to. That’s the thing about traditions, not everyone does them, or some do them differently. It’s what makes them different and unique.…
On 20 Oct 2015, the 20th divided family reunion meeting was hold in Mount Kumgang area in DROK, 389 South Korean participants fortunately had a brief meeting with their 141 relatives from North Korea after a 20 months absence. The sorrow and tears at the reunion site reminds people that the divided family issue, one of Korea's most urgent and pressing humanitarian problem caused by its historical and political division, is still remained unsolved and grim. This paper will summarize the information on this severe problem and briefly evaluate the possible solution proposed by James A. Foley in his work Korea's Divided Families: Fifty years of separation. The divided family issue…
Here in America, what children look forward the most is for Santa Claus to bring them presents. Christmas eve starts and generally is a preparation for Christmas, but before bed little kids put out cookies for Santa Clause. Early in the morning the Children wake up excited to see what Saint Nick has left for them and beg their parents to go downstairs to open gifts. After all the gifts are opened, a big breakfast is enjoyed. Families usually spend the day together and depending on their religious beliefs might go to a church service that will be extremely over crowded.…
The Mid-autumn Festival is an important holiday for Chinese people and I would like to discuss the meal on the Mid-autumn Festival in my family. The festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunar calendar. Traditionally, the meal is used to celebrate harvest because many crops, such as corn, sweet potatoes, rice, beans, and peanut, are harvested in autumn. Today, more and more people do not plant crops and the meal is gradually becoming a get-together meal for family members.…
CULTURAL RITUALS DURING CHRISTMAS Many people think Christmas is only celebrated on the 25th of December, but that’s not entirely true (Cooper, 2016). It depends in which country you in and your Christian traditions. In South Africa we celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December, with Christmas Eve the night before and Boxing Day the day after. Although Christmas celebrations start way before that for some Christians who believe in Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches.…