Alexander’s English Blog

 When I was a kid, the holidays were exciting, and stress free. I focused on gifts, fun traditions, and spending time with family but now that I’ve grown older it just feels a time I just want already due to school but still during the break help buy gifts instead receiving them but lastly I see the holidays a time of gathering with my family.

A tradition that is important to my family is secret Santa. Each year, we pick names and buy one gift for that person. This tradition matters because it makes the holidays fun and helps us focus on being thoughtful rather than spending a lot of money.

 The song is “the song is familiar” by Funkadelic  I heard it first from finishing the show Atlanta and kept it on my playlist. On the last day of school of junior year it was raining but as soon as I arrived home I decided to watch the show and since it was the finale of it, the song felt like a conclusion of my junior and it felt satisfying to listen as I just resting and saying that in my mind how fitting the song was for this time of the year so when I hear this song I just get reminded of my end of junior year.

 What I consider the best gift I received was the Lego Death Star from 2016 as I was starting to get into Star Wars my dad asked what I wanted for Christmas and told him the Lego Death Star and he did get it for me and it was pretty cool to have and it only took me 3 days to built due to the pieces it had but once I was done, I had a great time playing with it and the mini figures especially Darth Vader and I still have the set at my dads place displayed and when I look at it it reminds me of when I was younger.

 I used believe my best friend but not anymore due to her trying to fit in with others while not thinking about others around her especially her friends. She pushed me out of her life pretending she didn’t know who I was and who was with her supporting her but it didn’t matter to her and now I believe people like that will do anything to be someone and don’t care what happens if they get what they want.

 The relationship with my dad as a kid was that I didn’t really think of why he didn’t live with me and my mom and thought he’s just working and nothing else. In middle school I started to realize why he wasn’t around too much it was due to him working too much and seeing me and mom which is why. I didn’t get mad or anything I just understood that he worked for me and mom because he was my dad.

I was not great during the break as on that Monday I had my wisdom teeth removed so I was not able to eat comfortably throughout the week especially thanksgiving which was not great but other than that I was thankful that my family is still in good terms and are able to do gatherings like thanksgiving despite what happens in our family.