It was just like seeing Santa on his sleigh in a Christmas parade. Obviously they weren’t the real Three Kings, but as a kid I believed they were. After the festival was over, my family and I went back to my grandmother’s house and had our family party. It just so happened it was my grandmother’s responsibility to throw the family party that year, which is why we flew down. At the family party, there was great food and drinks, and we even had a band come play traditional music.
I asked, “Hey, did you guys order the cake yet? Did you, did you?” He answered, “Well, if I tell you now I’ll ruin the surprise but if I don’t you’ll keep annoying me until I tell you, so I’ll just show you the cake.” He went to the refrigerator to take out the heart cake about sixteen inches long. I thought it was too big but I guess his parents wanted him to have the best sixteenth birthday party ever. I think it looks like chocolate devil’s food cake and it said, “Happy Sixteenth Birthday, Mark!” on the top of the cake. It might not be chocolate devil’s food cake but I know it is chocolate flavor because chocolate is Mark’s favorite flavor for cake and ice-cream.
From the Big Bang to the Garden of Eden to the circumstances of our own births, we yearn to travel back to that distant time when everything was new and full of promise. Perhaps then, we tell ourselves, we can start to make sense of the convoluted mess we are in today. But beginnings are rarely as clear-cut as we would like them to be. Take, for example, the event that most Americans associate with the start of the United States: the voyage of the Mayflower.” (Nathaniel Philbrick). Every year late in November, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving; a holiday which one is thankful for the house they live in, clothes on their back, food on their plate and family who love them dearly.
I am very interested in starting a specific service project my junior year for CAS hours and this would be a great help to me with that. I think that I would be a valuable attendee to CASL because I am a freshman. Anything I learn can be used for all the rest of my four years of high school. I would also be a valuable attendee to the CASL conference because I would easily be able to make up the work that I miss on that Monday from school. I am also one of the older ones out of all my classmates so I would like to go to CASL so that I can learn to be a better leader to those who might look up to me.
A Christmas movie serves as a soundtrack while the tree is twinkling and sparkling in the background. I love making the same traditional Christmas cookies that I have made forever (Pizzelles and Spritz) with people I love.. The Sarasota Crew boys also won their heats in the second varsity eight and the boys single and double. In the finals, the Sarasota Crew will have eight boys and four girls teams. IF OUR RESIDENTS SEE SOMETHING THAT LOOKS WRONG, WE WOULD APPRECIATE THEM CALLING 311.
On New Year's Eve there is food and "cohetes", fireworks and festivities. Birthdays are also great events, and include the famous “piñata” which is filled with candies and surprises for the children
The first concept that I came across that really had me make a connection to something I had read was “Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion.” This chapter instantly drew me in because it really made me think of the word communion in a new light. He explains “communion doesn’t need to be holy. Or even decent (Foster 9).” The word communion can just simply have to do with how characters are or are not getting along. The work of literature that came to mind while reading this chapter was a short story called “Birthday Party,” written by Katharine Brush. In this short story a husband and wife are out for dinner to celebrate the husband’s birthday.
Still ‘light-years’ ahead of the rest! Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - By Anna Hale Totally out of the world! What film did you see when you were younger, that inspired you? For me, 'Star Wars' played a huge part in my childhood and some of the lessons it taught me are still very much a part of my life to this day. I watched Star Wars with my brother -Dave- for the first time one Christmas and from then on we were both hooked.
I was the class president during which I was in charge of fundraising for our class trip and setting up graduation. I was involved in many service-based organizations, these include Junior Ambassadors, Student Council and National Honor Society (NHS), and each group required that I met a certain amount of volunteer hours. Student Council revolved around volunteering at school events while Jr. Ambassadors and NHS revolved around volunteering for the community. Every year I was involved in Dream Makers where we bought toys for underprivileged kids during Christmas.
The most important times with my family are the holidays and special occasions spent together as a group. Aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, and great-grandparents all gather together at one of our homes in celebration of Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, the new year, birthdays, and graduations. We always have an abundance of dishes steaming with decadent food, such as my grandmom’s homemade macaroni and cheese. My mom usually fixes her sweet party punch: a mixture of Hawaiian punch, sprite, and sherbet. We gather around, eating, opening gifts, talking and laughing.