Grandparent

Six years ago, my family and I decided to take a trip to India so we could visit relatives. Anxiety filled my whole body because I never met any of these people before. We stuffed our suitcases with various clothing, products, presents, and accessories for the interminable trip ahead of us. Arriving at the airport, we set our heavy, black suitcases on the belt as it carried them away. After two hours of patience, my family and I finally boarded the large white airplane. People filled up the…

New Year’s 1953 was different. For the first time, we observed the Chinese New Year without Father. In the morning, we went to Mother’s room and made our usual bows. As usual, she gave us each a set of new clothes and a red envelope, and then boiled delicious sesame rice balls for our breakfast. The sweetness in my month didn’t change the bitterness in my heart. I missed my father. Later in the afternoon, Mother surprised us with a small rabbit lantern just like those Father had bought for us in…

Couples in My Culture While my parents gave me important values that I now carry with me in viewing relationship if I had to point at a relationship I would have to choose that of my maternal grandparents. Growing up I always looked up to them as one of the happiest couple I have laid eyes on. It was a love that radiated as soon as they walked through the door. While I grew up assuming that they were married, I found out that they were not later on during my adult years. This was a partnership…

Best friend Everyone has experienced a death before whether it 's your pet fish, hamster or cat. Death doesn 't always make it easier each time though. When you’re young it 's not as easy to explain to you why someone dies. At 5 or even 50 you still always wonder "why"? There is never an easy way to tell someone. It’s even harder to explain to your seven year old why grandpa no longer is going to be around. All of the things you guys did with each other like going to the park, watching your…

Bahmerican: My Language at Home In June of 1991, two families, who had many differences including socioeconomic, religious, and geographic were united in marriage. One was a middle-class family from the island of Grand Bahama. The patriarch, my maternal grandfather, was an executive with the Grand Bahama Power Company. His wife was a secretary for a construction firm. They were by no means wealthy, but they were able to send all three of their children, plus my grandfather’s younger brother…

I have been asked many times why I would ever want to be a hospice nurse. I get strange looks when I tell people it’s my dream job. I get the same reaction from most people, they get big eyes, jaw slightly drops, and they always suggest hospice nursing must be one of the saddest jobs created! I’ve wanted to be a nurse for as long as I can remember, and have felt called to hospice. As a young girl I wanted to be a baby nurse, and wanted to bring babies into the world. My journey and passion for…

her arm. Since no one was home at her house we went over my grandmas to see what was wrong. This was one thing great about Sunflower was there was always someone who could watch us to be safe. Everyone became great friends with the parents and grandparents. Doors would be open and we could enter with warm welcomes. Tyler sprained his hand falling off Katelyn 's trampoline. We were scared that time the most because Tyler was playing in a wrestling match in a week and thought it was broke so…

Homesteading in Montana became a way of life in 1862, several citizens from all around fled to Montana to claim land and began farming and ranching. Although this might sound easy there were many stipulations and processes in order to make homesteading possible. From families, wives, operations and much more led into the boom. “The ready available of free or inexpensive land and the new methods of dry farming made the Montana homestead boom possible” (Malone, Roeder and Lang 238). “Three…

From this I will then stick the flash cards to a classroom board and make a family tree, on the tree I will show the student their mother and father and then their grandparents. I will then move forward and discuss the word “Grandfather” and what other substations/synonymous for the word “Grandfather” could be i.e. grandad, grandpa, grand-pere and abuelo. From this the class will move on to group role-plays where the…

I challenge you to stop for a second and think about what it means whenever they say “good things never last for very long.” Do you truly know what it feels like to lose someone that means you everything to you, especially someone who you idolize? Well, if you have, then I assume that you would understand why I shed tears whenever I recount the wonderful memories of the undying moments my grandfather and I shared together. I never fully understood the meaning of those six words “good things…