Alta, Puerto Rico. My house in Toa Alta shaped me to be more social since I had friends there that we used to go out and play together. In Caguas, which was my grandmothers house, I didn’t went out and play. My sister and I always stayed inside to play or watch TV. My earliest memory I can recall been on the phone with my parents at my grandmother’s house and then going to my room in my grandmother’s house and crying because I missed my parents and then falling asleep. Both of my parents were deployed at the same time for a whole year. I used to play with Barbie and Bratz dolls, ride my bicycle, played hide and seek. With the Barbie’s and Bratz I used to make up stories to play with them. When riding my bicycle we used to have competitions to see who could go faster. Yes, I did go to my parent’s work place. When I was young both of my parents were in the Army. My dad’s role was a battalion commander and my mom’s role was a logistic officer. In my hometown my parents role was just to pay the house, light and water bill and to be parents to their two daughters. The place that is very familiar to me as a young child is my grandmothers house. It has change because she no longer lives there and…
Alzheimer’s disease took my great-grandmother from our family. My great-grandmother was 100 years old when she was taken from us. I want to back track some when we actually had her knowing us but beginning to show signs of this terrible disease. I guess I really did not notice that she did not remember me but with 11 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren to remember it was understandable. My mom would take my brother and me to visit her often since we lived in the same town. My mom would…
On July, 26, 1947 my grandmother Lauren Cunningham Vincent was born. I call my grandmother Nani. Nani is very special to me because she lives in Connecticut and I do not get to see her as often as my other grandparents. My grandmothers favorite subject in school growing up was was math so when she was older she was a banker until she had her first kid (child) my uncle George. My grandmother was born in St.Francis hospital in Connecticut. My grandmother was born and raised in Hartford…
I was born in Huntsville, Alabama my family moved to North Carolina in 2001 on the behalf of a troubling family member. I was not raised around religious people like most. The only person in my family that was religious was my grandmother, she use to force me and other siblings to come to church with her on Sundays. My grandmother was and still is very much senile; watches The Heat of The Night, and Family feud. She practically raised me and a few other siblings in the same home she owned for…
He left a pregnant wife and eight children behind. In February 7th, 1913, my great grandmother, Blanche Thompson was born in Kaneville Pennsylvania. She lived with her mother, Susan Thompson, who cleaned houses. My great grandmother once told me of the time she was around seven or eight when she rode on the back of her uncle’s wagon when a puppy ran out and he caught it for her and told her to keep him. Soon after that month, she told me about a man following her home claiming the dog was his,…
In a very minute town was Austria was a place that I considered my second home, my Oma’s house. In English we would say grandmother but in German it is known as “Oma”. Every summer since I was two years young, I visited my grandmother in the house that my mother grew up in. There was no better feeling than walking through the front doors of the house that my grandmother kept nice and clean over the years of dealing with many generations of children, and smelling that delicious aroma coming from…
If you were to go to my house and you went over to my study area you would see a have a kind of desk, a chair, and a lamp. The desk actually contains a sewing machine in the inside that used to belong to my mother. God rest her soul. Main reason I use this as a desk it that it is one of the few places in my house where I have a flat surface that is not cluttered with odds and ends. Also this desk is in a centrally located place in the dining room right next to the dining table. The dining room…
On an ominous, dark night it was extremely evident that there was something lurking in the trees. The feeling of a secret was lurking amidst the swaying trees. Luckily, I was inside cuddled underneath a freshly knitted blanket that concealed my body from the cold. It was on this night that I vividly remember the story of the Woman in the Mirror. Being unfamiliar with the urban legend, my grandmother continued to ask if I wanted to hear it, but my mom’s ‘no’ ringed throughout the air. She knew…
cultural legacy contribute to and individual self-Identity? In my family we have one tradition that sticks out for me and that is every Christmas we have breakfast and dinner at my grandmother house. I can’t wait for Christmas because we have a big Christmas breakfast which consist of bacon, eggs, pancakes, fried apples, and sausage. I must tell you that my grandma’s pancakes are to die for. Now her Christmas dinner is just as good as the breakfast. She always have 4 beef roast, a huge ham, rice…
Values: Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable. ““That must be a strangers house,” Leola thought to herself… “I know my Grandmama told me about strangers.” “ “” I know my Grandmama said, “Never go inside folks’ houses until first being politely asked..”” “”I know my Grandmama said, “Never help yourself in folks’ kitchens until first being politely asked..”” Throughout the story Leola remembers all the values her Grandmama has taught her. The types of…