Thanksgiving!!!!

In McAllen, Thankgiging is a huge deal, esspecially for the Granchelli family. I look forward to that Novemver 28th more that I do to any other day of the year, well maybe a tie with December 25th. We consider tthanksgiving a necessary and beautiful holiday in the sense that we are a catholic family and pay our respects to the lord for all we are blessed with, we are also very close as a family and we are very very thankful for one another and our families well being. Anither reason why it is such a special time of year is because it is a time of family gathering where every one of our nine family members get to come home and enjoy the company of one another and do some of our favorite activities that we grew up doing. The boys ususally go on several huinting and fishing trips, watch football, cook the turkey and BBQ, and talk about guns and sports and cool stuff we've done recenstly. The girls usually go eat, go shopping, and prepair all the sides of the giant meal to come. Then when the day of Thanksgiving comes, we all spend the day together, watch the football game, play games and have the greatest day of the year, ending it of course with a major fiest!!!

Changing my point of view

As iv mentioned before, when in first arrive, i felt out of place and some what alienated amongst the other students in which i now live with. I was completely different from all of them and i couldn't find anyone with any common characteristics as me or my way of life.
At first, i thought there was no way i was going to get along with alot of these culturally different people. It seemed as if they didn't seem too friendly towards me, but it turns out they were probably feeling the same culture shock i was. Although i have made friends with people of all types, i'm not going to lie that where i came from, we made fun of those rich, pretty boy, private school kids, and never gave them a chance to let us get to know them. And when someone of different culture or nationality, we never really gave them a chance either. But now that i'm in there shoes, i decided that the only way i was going to enjoy my time here for the next four years was to make peace with everyone. And now im happy i did. I have great friends from all over and of different lifestyles and elasticities and am happy to be able to experience a little bit of it all through them.