I’ve always found it interesting to learn about holiday traditions and what different families, cultures, and groups do to celebrate. I grew up in a conventional family where we always spent Thanksgiving at my aunt’s, Christmas Eve at my uncle’s, Christmas Day at my house, and so on. My grandma did Easter baskets and a hunt every year, and birthdays involved ice cream cake and presents.

As my cousins and I grew up, we began bringing significant others around, or even ditching our own family’s plans for our partner’s celebration. I enjoyed the feel of bringing new people into our homes and switching things up. When I was in college, a close friend of mine started spending Christmas with my family because he wasn’t close to his. December is now one of my favorite times, not only because I get to travel home, but I also get to visit with my friend I see once a year. Christmas just doesn’t feel right without him now. I love that it’s a holiday custom that we’ve blended along the way.

I have another friend whose family opens all their presents on Christmas Eve and then spends Christmas Day at an amusement park. So fun, right? Or people who use Thanksgiving as a time to instead give back, and eat and serve at a shelter. I once saw a movie where the kid got to eat his birthday cake for breakfast which seemed totally acceptable. As for my family, the Easter Bunny always gave us bathing suits as a start to warmer weather.

One of the best parts of the holidays—to me—is that they come with the ability to create your own traditions. Even if you didn’t grow up in a tight-knit family, you can choose to spend holidays with friends who’ve turned into family. You can add in quirky practices even if you have a traditional family who has been doing the same thing for decades. Basically, you make the holidays whatever you want and I love that. Whether you spend them in church, with people you’ve just met, or in your parents’ living room, to me it’s simply a time of gathering and focusing on who you’re with.

I can’t wait to someday start a family and create holiday traditions while continuing with old ones. I definitely want to incorporate volunteering since that wasn’t something I grew up doing, and to keep the big meals and bathing suits going, too. Oh, and I’ll take the cake for breakfast.

Are you eager to look forward to the weekend like me? After a stressful studying week, I am eagerly looking forward to the weekend to be able to have fun, or even to sleep so I don’t have to worry about tomorrow. The feeling of being able to have fun without having to worry about going to school tomorrow or doing homework is great for us. And so my two weekends were really meaningful with many entertainment schedules. Saturday will be the day I get off in the afternoon because I still have to go to school to study and class in the morning.

After class is usually the afternoon I will go to the supermarket and buy the necessary items or sometimes just to go eat roast chicken or really tasty snacks and watch movies. the movies that were shown in the theaters were so cool, so we asked our classmates to hug a girl with a coke and bring them into the movie, there are days when we watch action movies with beautiful plays, or sometimes funny and amusing comedies. We especially avoid watching emotional dramas for fear of being in the same mood and making our weekends more sad.Coming out of the theater, I rushed into the street sausage skewers to sniff the smell of meat and sip the meat with chili sauce and so felt endless happiness with a great Saturday. The evening will be interesting programs at home, that night I do not need to touch the books and parents are not screamed like the other days, because that day I will be relaxed. The whole family sat around the pot of boiled corn in November, and together they talked, sometimes with the neighbors and friends working and playing karaoke.

So Saturday went by and I slept again on Sunday and that’s what I wanted for the whole week, the days I had to wake up very early to get ready for school. On Sundays, I would hang out with my parents and children or go out with friends in some nearby parks.

My weekend will be like that, and after two weekends to relax, I will be shocked to start the next week. It is my weekend, how about you, wish you a happy and meaningful weekend to start a new week full of energy!