Christmas Traditions
Every year on Christmas Eve we go to my grandparent’s house to celebrate with them and my aunts and uncles. Normally, we go around noon and stay until eleven at night. During the time in which we are there we eat dinner and open up gifts. This year I got a gift card to Hollister, two subscriptions to magazines I like and a few other things for my grandparents. My aunt and uncle usually get me something from Hollister.
Every year on Christmas Day my mom’s side of the family comes to my house. That includes my grandparents on that side, my Aunt Sheila, Uncle Steve, my cousin Ashley and her husband Mike and my new baby cousin Caleb. My mom normally cooks a huge feast for all of us and we have tons of leftovers for days after. We open up our presents from our parents on Christmas morning and the one from the rest of our family after we eat. However, this year we had Christmas at my Grandmas house because my mom was in the Hospital back in November and it was too much for her to do. I will say one thing about Christmas this year, it was a disaster. I told my mom that I was going to boycott going to my grandma’s house because it was a tradition to have it at our house and it didn’t work. My mom made me go. But my mom even said that it will not happen again because like I said, it was a disaster and I really don’t want to say all that happened. But other than that, I had a good Christmas getting most of what I wanted, well everything except one thing that many and many of girls were wanting, Justin Bieber.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
The Power of One
The Power of One Blog Assignment
After watching The Power of One, I felt that I could better understand the apartheid that took place in South Africa. I learned that the English didn’t get along with the Afrikaners or the Africans and both treated the Africans with great disrespect. The most difficult part of the movie for me to see was when P.K. was at the prison and the guy who taught him how to box was killed. I can’t believe that people actually treated Africans this way. The only good that came out of that was that he became a free man and spoke his mind to the guy before he died. This movie did help me understand what went on but it still confuses me what the word “Apartheid” really means. I know what went on but it is still somewhat hard for me to understand.
Compared to all of the movies that we have watched in Global Ed. so far, this has been one of my favorites. It is a very inspiring film that shows us how wrong it is to discriminate against others just because of their race. This also reminds me of Hotel Rwanda because it is very similar in the way that there is a group of people that hate another group of people in the same country. Overall, the movie, The Power of One was very helpful to understand what went on in South Africa and was very inspiring to see how one person could make a difference.
After watching The Power of One, I felt that I could better understand the apartheid that took place in South Africa. I learned that the English didn’t get along with the Afrikaners or the Africans and both treated the Africans with great disrespect. The most difficult part of the movie for me to see was when P.K. was at the prison and the guy who taught him how to box was killed. I can’t believe that people actually treated Africans this way. The only good that came out of that was that he became a free man and spoke his mind to the guy before he died. This movie did help me understand what went on but it still confuses me what the word “Apartheid” really means. I know what went on but it is still somewhat hard for me to understand.
Compared to all of the movies that we have watched in Global Ed. so far, this has been one of my favorites. It is a very inspiring film that shows us how wrong it is to discriminate against others just because of their race. This also reminds me of Hotel Rwanda because it is very similar in the way that there is a group of people that hate another group of people in the same country. Overall, the movie, The Power of One was very helpful to understand what went on in South Africa and was very inspiring to see how one person could make a difference.
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