9:00am - Woke up
10:00am- Helped cook a few things
11:30am- 1:00pm- Sat around watching television
1:05pm - 3:00pm- Visited grandparents
3:05pm- 5:00pm- Slept
5:05- 5:15- Ate again
5:25- 9:00pm- Chatted with family, cracked jokes, relaxed
9:30pm- 11:30pm- Drove to New Jersey to stay at my grandfathers house
11:40pm- 4:45pm- Sleep/ Woke up ready to hit the stores!
Thanksgiving is a holiday that is celebrated by many people of all cultures and religions. Most people prepare large amounts of food from meat, to vegetables...and the most traditional of them all..TURKEY! People go out and spend money to satisfy all the guest that come over to celebrate this holiday. After hours of slaving in the kitchen, the food is set and ready to be eaten. In my family it is not a tradition to say what we are grateful for, but for some reason this year my mother forced everyone to. The overall thing my family said that they were grateful for, was being alive. This year my mom begin to cook the day before thanksgiving, which means that the actual day of thanksgiving most of the food would already be prepared. Eating and laughing stood as the main activities occurring in my household, it felt good to be around a lot of loved ones who I only really see on special occasions. This is what I did the entire night, until I went to New Jersey..kind of boring huh? Well not really...because when you spend time with people who you love, often it takes up for the boring aspect of the activity going on.
The holiday as a whole is some what weird to me. So much time and dedication is put into preparing food and eating, which is something that stands as a issue to many Americans today. New York was named the 37th most obese state in American by the fifth annual F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America, 2008 report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Johnson Foundation. This is appalling to hear because during thanksgiving I bet there are few families that have concern about how many calories or carbohydrates they are consuming. This shows a lot about the American way of life, and how things are just seen as good because of the on tradition and glorifications it hold, but when really examining the facts...it can possibly be a problem to America.
Some people may argue that they don’t see how Americans can gobble down so much food, while African children are starving to death. I believe that the reason for this is just based on the overall affect of thanksgiving. The affect of it is basically to have a good time and eat, so therefore no one is going to think about the bad side of having the blessing to enjoy food. Thinking about the bad side of thanksgiving will only ruin some of the fun that many people have while eating, so I believe that these people put the issues that other people are having on the back burner while enjoying thanksgiving the best way known to mankind. This relates to the way people view Americans. They don’t see us as being the most caring people, but instead being people who only care about the way things are going in their life. This is true even though some like to deny it. I guess it shows that many Americans like to block out the troubles in the world, to have fun living their own life.
