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Happy Easter!

08 Apr

On Thursday, we entered Holy week, in which we celebrate Jesus’s passion, death, and ressurection.  On Thursday, we celebrate the Last Supper, the Passover meal in which he ate his last meal on earth with his Disciples.  This also the night in which Jesus is betrayed by Judas, and before that, goes to pray in the garden before his capture.  There is also is a sadness to the day, because this is the day that Peter denys Jesus three times.  On Friday, which is Good Friday, Jesus dies on the cross.  It is called Good Friday because Jesus died for us to clean us of our sins and so we could go to Heaven and enjoy eternal life.  Later in the day, Jesus’s body was taken down from the cross, and laid in a tomb.  On Saturday, we endure the waiting of Jesus’s ressurection, in which the Disciples and Mary, the mother of Jesus, hid from the soldiers, but with grief over the death of Jesus.

On Sunday, Easter Sunday, Jesus rises from the dead, and the news is discovered when three women come to visit Jesus’s tomb.  To their dismay, the stone in front of the tomb has been rolled away and it is empty.  As they mourn this fact an angel appears to them, and tells them that Jesus has risen.  They soon tell the Disciples, and Jesus stayed on Earth for 4o more days, before his Accension into Heaven, which is not celebrated in Holy Week.  This is what Easter is really about; Jesus’s death on the cross for us to be free from sins and so we could enjoy eternal life, and the joy of his Ressurection.  That’s what Easter is all about.

 

 
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Danu Concert

17 Mar

On St. Patricks Day, 2012, my family and I went to Jorgenson Theater on the UConn campus to see an Irish band called Danu.  There were five band members, and the instruments that were played were an accordion, guitar, fiddle, flute, and some sort of really cool drum.  The girl member mostly sang, even though she played the flute.  During the first half of the show, the band played songs that they had designated for the show.  The songs with vocals were sung mostly in Galic, the Irish language.  In between songs, a band member would tell about the song and usually tell a joke.  Toward the end of the first half of the show, between one of the songs, the musicians said that depending on where you were in Ireland, the crowd would have different whoops or cheers to encourage the musicians.  They then asked what our call was to encourage the UConn teams.  For about one or two seconds, there was an awkward silence, and then I heard a voice shout “UConn!”, and the crowd responded “Huskies!”, like it had been practiced many times!  The voice ended up being my dad!  He got to do it a couple more times because the musicians thought it was a really cool call and got a kick out of it!

          During the intermission, we found out that my cousins Christine and Catherine, and Christine’s boyfriend J.C. were there.  They didn’t know that it was my dad that began the Husky call.  It was also nice because my dad and I got to talk to J.C. during the break.  During the second half, the band sang their favorite Irish songs and they were all very fun.  After one of the songs, all the musicians ecept the drummer left the stage.  Then, the drummer did the longest drum roll and solo that I had ever seen.  The solo was the most amazing part of the show!  After this, the band came back on, playing a few more songs before leaving the stage.  Danu came back on stage because they received a standing ovation.  After the show, the band came out in the lobby to sign autographs.  We each got all the musicians autographs.  It was a great show and it was a nice ending to St. Patrick’s Day!

 
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Happy Thanksgiving

25 Nov

The first thanksgiving dates back to of 1620 when the pilgrims escaped religious persecution in England.  They fled to the Netherlands, where they stayed for some amount of time, but soon got to finance a pilgrimage to North America.  The voyage lasted 12 weeks and when they reached Plymouth rock, the date was December 11, 1620.  During that winter, they lost about half of the 102 pilgrims, because of the winter and the harsh conditions on their ship, the Mayflower.  After the winter, the pilgrims had very little hope of survival.

In the spring, the pilgrims voted to stay, and not return to England.  During that spring, they met some Indians that helped them survive and plant crops.  During that fall, the harvest was a bountiful one.  The pilgrims celebrated the first thanksgiving, thanking God for surviving in the wilderness and for the bountiful harvest.  91 Indians celebrated the feast with the pilgrims.  For the feast they had fish, berries, watercress, lobster, dried fruit, clams, venison, plums, and boiled pumpkin.  They also made fried bread from the corn they had produced.

The first thanksgiving lasted three days.  On the third day, Governor Bradford sent four men fowling.  They came back with wild ducks and and geese.  The second Thanksgiving would be celebrated 55 years later.  This next thanksgiving was celebrated to show thanks for the good fortune of seeing the colony of Charleston, Mass., established.  It was celebrated on June 29, 1676.

The next Thanksgiving was celebrated one hundred years later.  This time, all thirteen colonies celebrated in the feast.  It was celebrated in October, due to the victory over the British at Saratoga.  In 1789, George Washington proclaimed a national day of thanks, although some opposed it.   In 1863, President Lincoln made the last Thursday in November a national day of thanks.  Every president after Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanks on the same date.  But in 1941, Congress established Thanksgiving as a national holiday, to be celebrated every fourth Thursday of November.

To me Thanksgiving means a day we should be thankful for everything you have.  You should count all your blessings more than you would regularly.  I’m thankful for a good family, good food, clothing and a roof over my head.  I also think that Thanksgiving means a day to be kind to everyone.  You should be kind regularly but you should be extra kind on Thanksgiving.  That’s what Thanksgiving means to me.

 
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