My Opa Essay
The name Kanissa is a creation, a hand me down with a twist. A name, similar to my aunt Anissa. Ever since I was little, my aunt has always been there. Whether it be from the first day of 1rst grade, where I cautiously walked down the gargantuan and tedious halls marked by the pencils of the children before me. Or birthday parties spent at Oma and Opa’s. Oma and opa means grandma and grandpa in Dutch.
Holidays and birthday parties that are spent at Oma and Opa’s house are hectic. Trapped in a small white, worn down house filled with thirty people. All compacted and smothered together like a filled Gumball machine. Small children with mouthfuls of candies and spit running down their chin, weaving through the legs of adults trying to tag one another. Inside the small house the lingering smell of fish oil and Indonesian food filled the noses of the hungry, as they talk, laugh, and smile with one another. In the vandepol family all major …show more content…
To this day,i can still remember laying in bed with my oma scratching my back with her long, yet well kept nails while at the same time singing to me softly Dutch lullabies.
From my opa i get my last name Vandepol which was passed to him and then passed down to me from my father.The origin of my last name is Dutch, but my first name has an unknown origin. Simply because it is not Dutch or indonesian and google doesn't have an answer for me either.
To me my name means keen, affectionate, nice, incredible, sentimental, shy, and agile. My name is unique to me and the few people in the united states who share the name with me. I have never met another person with the name kanissa and i'm glad, because it is special to me. Maybe it doesn't have a meaning to it, but that doesn't mean the name kanissa can't have a meaning. i am that meaning. I am
Holidays and birthday parties that are spent at Oma and Opa’s house are hectic. Trapped in a small white, worn down house filled with thirty people. All compacted and smothered together like a filled Gumball machine. Small children with mouthfuls of candies and spit running down their chin, weaving through the legs of adults trying to tag one another. Inside the small house the lingering smell of fish oil and Indonesian food filled the noses of the hungry, as they talk, laugh, and smile with one another. In the vandepol family all major …show more content…
To this day,i can still remember laying in bed with my oma scratching my back with her long, yet well kept nails while at the same time singing to me softly Dutch lullabies.
From my opa i get my last name Vandepol which was passed to him and then passed down to me from my father.The origin of my last name is Dutch, but my first name has an unknown origin. Simply because it is not Dutch or indonesian and google doesn't have an answer for me either.
To me my name means keen, affectionate, nice, incredible, sentimental, shy, and agile. My name is unique to me and the few people in the united states who share the name with me. I have never met another person with the name kanissa and i'm glad, because it is special to me. Maybe it doesn't have a meaning to it, but that doesn't mean the name kanissa can't have a meaning. i am that meaning. I am