gathered for Grace then the cousins went and sat at their table in the living room, and the adults…
My family and I usually have Thanksgiving at our church. Which always starts at six. Our pastor always organizes it the same way every year. During service the little kids will be taken downstairs to eat, after them, the teenagers go down. During that time they feed the youngest to the oldest.…
As a Chinese-American, my family expected me to help out at the restaurant while maintaining straight A's in school. But, it wasn't easy; every day, I would report to the restaurant after school and immediately start working. Inside the kitchen, I would pack all the orders into aluminum containers, place them into a brown bag, and insert packets of sauces and utensils. Burns and cuts were common due to the terrible and tearable aluminum containers. Outside at the front desk, I would answer the seemingly endless ringing phones. In many instances, customers had to wait either on the phone or at the front desk for me to find their orders on the computer, even after they showed me where it was on the menu. During lunch hours, the pressure was even…
I was, of course, in our local synagogue, praying with my father and brothers. It is a difficult day; no food or drink allowed, just endless praying.…
Should Christmas decorations be on display prior to thanksgiving? Well, no because I think that it breaks tradition or people spend more money than they usually have. On the other hand some readers might disagree because some want Christmas to last more longer so they can enjoy it. Don’t go away more details are coming your way!…
My mom’s surgery was very successful, and she finally came home the day before Thanksgiving. My family and I usually don’t do much for Thanksgiving. We usually go out to a friends house for a small party to celebrate the holiday; but that year, we had to skip the…
My Thanksgiving vacation could have been more enjoyable. I did a lot of working over break. Starting from the beginning, on Tuesday after we got let out of school, I drove all the way down to Des Moines because I had to work. I work at the Des Moines Buccaneers Hockey Arena, it’s a USHL hockey league that boys from ages 16-19 play in while trying to get scholarships to colleges they are signed to. My sister Kaylee and I worked in the Pirates Cove cleaning until around 7:00 P.M. Buccaneer clothing can be purchased in the cove. We had to close down and quit cleaning at 7:00 P.M. because an important hockey game called the Turkey Cup. Between two Des Moines high school hockey teams, the Oak Leafs and the Capitals. On these teams the boys age from, 16-19, although they are the…
I come from a world where the only thing that is constant, is change. Changing states, changing houses, and changing schools. Unlike most other kids, I don't have a childhood home where I made countless memories, in fact, my earliest memories as a child all consist of cardboard moving boxes, along with unimaginably long car rides to foreign places. I don’t have a door marked to show how I've grown over the years, and I don't have a bedroom wall thick with paint covering over colors I chose as a child. Truthfully, often times when I was younger, and would see someone with these things, I was tempted to be envious and couldn't help but to think how lucky they were to have such stability. As a result of this, I spent a large portion of my childhood…
And after our fun at the Skating Rink in Torrence, California we would go eat in the next town from Torrence,California in Redondo Beach, California where they had live Crab that we were able to pick out yourself from the tanks so they can cook for you to eat with lots of potatoes and corn on the cob. That was the best meal till this day I've…
the same time. It was dinner time. I got to eat with my foster family for the…
Many families include the entire family in the food preparation. Traditional foods include turkey, stuffing, gravy, sweet potatoes, cornbread, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce. Many people serve pie for dessert at the end of the meal.…
I have written grocery lists, and cooked for the family. One night I made a shrimp dish that was everyone's favorite.…
table. After we ate my dad went to watch TV, and my mom however went to the living…
Later at night I would wait until I thought everyone was asleep, then tip-toe into the kitchen, quietly open the refrigerator and nibble crispy fried chicken and slices of apple pie. Most times I ate things cold; I couldn't risk warming anything up in the microwave. The floor would sometimes squeak as I entered the kitchen.…
After getting myself ready or shall I say ourselves, because I was with my friends, we also planned how to get to and meet at the venue. So since we came from north, south, east, west and call time was so early, we decided to stay over in one place and that was in one of my workmates and friends' uncle's house in Banawa, Cebu. Though he was not part of the running team, he still let us sleep over in his uncle's house since his uncle and family were in other country.…