Christmas food

up even longer periods. During this time, the Vietnamese will partake in various traditions and activities including visiting their families and arranging reunions. It is considered a tradition that combines the western holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas,…

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. The tradition my family does is called Samhain (pronounced sow-een). It is also known…

is used to light all the other candles. Each night a candle is lite by the shamash. That process is continued for eight nights when all the candles are lite. Each night, right after the candles are lite, the people that celebrate Hanukkah eat fried food and sing traditional…

Candy Day, a time of connection and joy, can be one of the quintessentially fun days of the lead up to Christmas. The uttermost specific case of this excitement is when we rented out a school for a warm Saturday afternoon, nonetheless in December, and made as much candy as we could physically muster. At the time I was around 5 or 6 so the playground outside…

It was early Christmas morning in Los Angeles, California. I woke up feeling like many kids felt when they woke up that morning, with excitement. I put on my clothes and rushed down stairs to find only one present under the tree. I looked at the name tag for who it was for, it was for me. I picked it up and shook it, I couldn’t hear anything. I ripped it open to find a piece of paper. The paper said ‘You have been chosen out of a special group to go undercover and fight crime over the world’. I…

do the dragon dance on the streets during the spring festival(Valdez). Yes, we did have this tradition, but we do not do it a lot now. It is more like a symbol for it, we only do it for some TV shows now. Just like I did not know anything about Christmas before I come to America, People here have…

historical-circunstancial nature, since it is related with a concrete historical moment or circumstance in which the author was immersed. The letter was written on 17 December 1846, but it was published in The London Times newspaper a few days after, on Christmas Eve. We must situate this text in the period of The Great Famine, The Great Hunger, or The Irish Potato Famine. It was the worst famine in Europe of the 19th century, suffered in Ireland between 1845 and 1849 or 1851 (depends on the…

There are many memorable family trips that I have made throughout my whole life, but the one that stood out to me the most was my trip to New York City also known as The Big Apple. When my mother first told me that we were going, I was ecstatic. The part that made it even better was that our whole family including aunts, uncles, and cousins were also joining us in the amazing vacation. The timing of the vacation could not have been any better. When my mom told us we were going, she said we would…

Wow An Adventure Written and Illustrated by Kathy Leypoldt Dedication My Grandchildren: Annabeth Swayze, Merritt Swayze, Hadley Schultheis, Haid Schultheis, Nola Schultheis, “New Baby” Schultheis Merry Christmas 2014 It’s so fun to be your Grandmom This is the story of a fluffy little dog by the name of Bow Wow. He lives in a nice house, in a nice town with a nice family of four : Mommy, Daddy and two young children.…

We start celebrating Christmas Eve by going to Church and having the last posada, as a family. When we come back from church we gather at a family members house. There we eat our traditional food, pozole, tamales, and drink ponche. As the night goes on we joke around, play games, dance, and even sing. When midnight approaches we gather everyone to get ready to open presents and welcome baby Jesus. To conclude this is how Latin America celebrates Christmas. With our traditional pozadas, and…