Ashley Burkes ENC 1101 M-W Christmas Dinner Isolation For nearly every individual family usually comes first. The love that one has for their parents, children, or siblings is usually unprecedented in comparison to the love an individual develops with strangers. However, I have always felt somewhat separated from my family. I have an undeniable love for them, but it would appear that everyone within my family is closer to each other than they are with me. I’m not quite sure how that developed, but it is noticeable.
Every year my family can receive a lot of Zongzi and moon cakes as gifts. Usually we cannot finish so have to throwing them all away. Most of the people do not know the real meaning of every festival and just think it as holidays
Sometimes I think that the dream still isn’t dead in me, especially since this past Thanksgiving. This year, my family (my mother, my sister and I) decided to be a host family to two Great Lakes Naval Base Boot Camp members for the holiday. On Thanksgiving morning, my mother and I went to pick up our two ‘recruits’. I was so stuck in a cloud, dreaming of spending my holiday with tow muscle-bound hotties, that it never occurred to me what happened next. Two young ladies approached us and introduced themselves as Midshipman MacIntosh and Shipman McDonough.
The grateful Pilgrims then declared a three-day feast, starting on December 13, 1621, to thank God and to celebrate with their Indian friends. While this was not the first Thanksgiving in America (thanksgiving services were held in Virginia as early as 1607), it was America’s first Thanksgiving Festival. The writing of the Pilgrims told us that about 141 people attended the three day celebration. Chief Massasoit brought 90 braves and there were about 50 were Pilgrims. Only four of the Pilgrim women were at the feast.
Grandma wanted to move to town, so the big ranch was sold and the one I grew up on was bought. My brother, sister and I had always been expected to do chores around the house and take care of the yard. Most brothers and sisters dislike each other from time to time, but we were family, we didn’t stay mad long, or else it would end up in a hand holding session out on the front porch. I'd spend the next 18 years enslaved to there. I worked every weekend and summer often sun up to sundown.
In Lewes, my family would attend Bethel United Methodist Church almost every Sunday. My parents didn’t have a deep connection to the church, but they felt that going to church would be good for the family. Therefore, they would push my sister and I to wake up early on most Sunday’s and bribe us with an IHOP breakfast afterwards. It was always a struggle to wake up so early and to sit for two hours still and quiet. That might be a reason that I still dread going to church today.
Turkeys Turning the Tables For hundreds of years, humans have eaten turkey to celebrate holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas. History tells us how eating turnkey during Thanksgiving started, and has stayed as a tradition. Why Turkey? Why not chicken, goose, or pork? Thanksgiving is a time to bring families and relatives together, alike most families there is usually a gathering home, usually grandma’s house.
Conversion Testimony I have not always been a Christian. Having been raised by my mother and step-father that are committed Christians; I have been attending to church all of my life but I did not understand what was going on due to no Sign Language Interpreter. I used to think that church was just family and friends gathering on every Sunday. No one sat down with me and made sure that I understood. They just assumed that I was a deaf and dumb.
This disallowed me to attend the parade, because the football players were required to be in the locker room in the morning. This policy employed by our coach kept our focus on the game and to not get caught up in the festivities. As a football player, the game was the most important part of the day. Every alumnus possible comes back for the day and the highlight event is the football game. Your goal is to win the game for the pride of the community.
I would hate having to go home because I would miss my grandparents until I would see them the next time. Family dinners were so fun to go to every year. My favorite holiday