A Brand New Year
On New Year’s Eve, I saw the movie Avatar with my parents and brother. The movie was interesting and exhilarating to watch. I saw the movie in 3D IMAX so I felt like I was in the movie. After the movie was over, we went out to eat at Max and Erma’s. We got home and waited for the ball in Times Square to drop. We wore New Year’s hats and had poppers and noisemakers. My parents anxiously watched the TV for the big moment with their champagne in fancy glasses while I had sparkling white grape juice. At first, the time went so quickly but as the last few minutes were coming to an end, the time went by slowly due to all the excitement in the room.
Then I heard “Five, four, three, two, one, Happy New Year!” and there was so much noise from all of the noisemakers. The poppers were all over the place, including on my dog. Everyone was screaming and taking sips of their drinks. Finally 2009 was over and here comes 2010!
Even though 2009 had some bad moments such as when the car industry had a few big budget and lay off hits or when the King of Pop died. Besides the negative, 2009 was had some good times too such as when I started high school or when I went on a terrific summer vacation in Cancun, Mexico for two weeks.
I am hoping 2010 will be an even better year. I am looking forward to new vacations and having exciting times with my family.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Holidays Never Change
Holidays Never Change
For every major holiday, my family likes to do similar activities every year. On the day before Thanksgiving, my grandma, my mom, and I cook all day at my house. I usually peel potatoes and apples and cut vegetables and fruit for salads while my mom and grandma do the apple, pumpkin, and chocolate pies. On the next day, my mom puts the turkey in the oven around 10:00am, with the stuffing in the turkey. While the turkey cooks, my brothers and I do chores around the house. At 5:00pm my cousins and grandparents arrive at my house and we all have a wonderful Thanksgiving together.
When Christmas comes around, we plan on going to my grandparents’ house in Dearborn on Christmas Eve with my cousins to open presents. My grandma always makes a spaghetti dinner with salad, bread, and meatballs. We stay at my grandparents’ house until 11:30 then we head back to Livonia to St. Aidan’s Church for Midnight Mass.
On Christmas morning, I wake my family up at around 9:00am to open presents. After presents are done, we open a movie we got and watch it together. For the rest of the day, we just relax and have a nice dinner.
The next major holiday that we have traditions for is Easter. Every Easter, my family and grandparents go to New Orleans, Louisiana. We arrive there a few days before Easter and enjoy Cajun meals such at crawfish and gumbo. On Easter day, there are many parades in the streets where residents are sponsored by companies to but on parades. At the parades, people on the floats toss Mardi Gras necklaces, candy, and stuffed animals, usually bunnies or ducks since it is Easter. Then all of the floats stop at the St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square where the whole town celebrates Easter Mass.
For every major holiday, my family likes to do similar activities every year. On the day before Thanksgiving, my grandma, my mom, and I cook all day at my house. I usually peel potatoes and apples and cut vegetables and fruit for salads while my mom and grandma do the apple, pumpkin, and chocolate pies. On the next day, my mom puts the turkey in the oven around 10:00am, with the stuffing in the turkey. While the turkey cooks, my brothers and I do chores around the house. At 5:00pm my cousins and grandparents arrive at my house and we all have a wonderful Thanksgiving together.
When Christmas comes around, we plan on going to my grandparents’ house in Dearborn on Christmas Eve with my cousins to open presents. My grandma always makes a spaghetti dinner with salad, bread, and meatballs. We stay at my grandparents’ house until 11:30 then we head back to Livonia to St. Aidan’s Church for Midnight Mass.
On Christmas morning, I wake my family up at around 9:00am to open presents. After presents are done, we open a movie we got and watch it together. For the rest of the day, we just relax and have a nice dinner.
The next major holiday that we have traditions for is Easter. Every Easter, my family and grandparents go to New Orleans, Louisiana. We arrive there a few days before Easter and enjoy Cajun meals such at crawfish and gumbo. On Easter day, there are many parades in the streets where residents are sponsored by companies to but on parades. At the parades, people on the floats toss Mardi Gras necklaces, candy, and stuffed animals, usually bunnies or ducks since it is Easter. Then all of the floats stop at the St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square where the whole town celebrates Easter Mass.
The Power of One
The Power of One
The movie The Power of One was difficult to watch due to the racism between the Afrikaners, the English, and the Africans. Such as when P.K. was a little boy and was sent to an Afrikaner school while he was English. P.K. was bullied at the school. He was peed on and his chicken (a.k.a his best friend) was killed by a slingshot. He was also bullied in a way when he was a teenager. When he tried to teach Africans english, the same bully from his prep school was a policeman and he followed P.K. around to catch him and arrest him.
This movie showed that South Africa was being taken over by Afrikaners. The Africans lived in towns were there was only one bathroom for everyone and no one else was allowed in this towns other than Africans. Africans weren’t supposed to be seen with whites unless they were their slaves. Such as when P.K. and Maria were walking out of the boxing gym with Guideon Duma and Mlungisi when the police came up to them. They were going to arrest Duma and Mlungisi but P.K. threw his gym bag to Duma and told him to take it home. This way the police thought that Duma and Mlungisi were his slaves so P.K. saved them from going to refugee camps.
The Power of One is similar to Hotel Rwanda because, in both movies, there are conflicts between groups. There was a conflict between the Tutsi and Hutu tribes in Hotel Rwanda where there was genocide. In The Power of One, the Afrikaners, Africans, and English had conflicts and there was apartheid.
The movie The Power of One was difficult to watch due to the racism between the Afrikaners, the English, and the Africans. Such as when P.K. was a little boy and was sent to an Afrikaner school while he was English. P.K. was bullied at the school. He was peed on and his chicken (a.k.a his best friend) was killed by a slingshot. He was also bullied in a way when he was a teenager. When he tried to teach Africans english, the same bully from his prep school was a policeman and he followed P.K. around to catch him and arrest him.
This movie showed that South Africa was being taken over by Afrikaners. The Africans lived in towns were there was only one bathroom for everyone and no one else was allowed in this towns other than Africans. Africans weren’t supposed to be seen with whites unless they were their slaves. Such as when P.K. and Maria were walking out of the boxing gym with Guideon Duma and Mlungisi when the police came up to them. They were going to arrest Duma and Mlungisi but P.K. threw his gym bag to Duma and told him to take it home. This way the police thought that Duma and Mlungisi were his slaves so P.K. saved them from going to refugee camps.
The Power of One is similar to Hotel Rwanda because, in both movies, there are conflicts between groups. There was a conflict between the Tutsi and Hutu tribes in Hotel Rwanda where there was genocide. In The Power of One, the Afrikaners, Africans, and English had conflicts and there was apartheid.
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