Happy Memorial Day!
Monday, May 26th my family gathered together for an evening dinner for Memorial Day and also to celebrate my cousin Catherine’s birthday. My family had a great classic summer dinner, with hamburgers, hot dogs, coleslaw, and two different types of potatoes! It was delicious! After polishing off our plates, my soon to be cousin-in-law JC […]
Happy Easter!
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 […]
Danu Concert
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 […]
Happy Thanksgiving
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, […]