Winter Break

Over the winter break i only celebrated Christmas and New years. On christmas eve i Went to My sisters house and everyone celebrated there. We all had a good time. Their was a lot of people in the house, over capacity i shall say. At 12 am we all exchanged gifts. Then we began to open that one gift we exchanged. After, we then left went home and went to sleep. When we woke up we started opening all of our gifts. I received a lot of clothes, but I'm not complaining about because I'm grateful for what i got. There are others who did not have a christmas so being grateful should not be an option. I did not get what i really wanted which was a keyboard. This christmas i got a lot less than i usually got. I guess thats because we are living through a recession and money is tight. It can also be that i am getting older and i can deal with not getting a few stuff. Other than that christmas was good for me. On new years I celebrated home. I really wanted to go out to a party and bug out. I watched the ball drop and right on 12:00 i blasted the radio and played Pop Champaign by Ron Browz. Then after that mom let my sisters and i drank apple cider. i am glad that i spent New years home because 1st off it was too cold outside and i was not trying to have an asthma attack. Second, when a crowd of people get together, they don't know how to act. I would not want to be apart of that.

In America we tend to think that it is a time where everyone gives and gets presents to others. We buy trees and decorate them them. Make little kids believe in a big jolly man who goes by the name of Santa. we sing songs and everything is suppose to be happy. Im not sure where everyone got the idea from because to my knowledge Christmas was about God. american should be in church praising him, those who believe in him. So it goes back to the question, where did Americans get the atmosphere it has now? For New years, it seems like American just want to have fun, which is by going to a party and drinking until they can not walk right. It also seems in order to have a good time you must smoke or drink. I guess all of this is because of the MEDIA. The Media has influenced everything that is going on in society. To me it feels that the media is our life. we watch it everyday, listen to it, learn from it and last but not least, gain from it. American way of life is surrounded by it. If we see it on t.v then it seems thats how we live it.