families & tradition

Coming from a family where culture and tradition is so important my feelings on both culture and tradition are very strong. My culture is very important to me, I participate in weekly meetings with my Ukrainian American Youth Association, where we discuss different current events as well as commorate historical events. Also i attend church regularly where i participate in a Ukrainian Orthodox League in which we do all kinds of community service as well as different things around that church such as decorate for christmas and hold a yearly luncheon for the senior citizens of our church.

Also traditions are very important with my family. An example is our Christmas dinner. We hold a traditonal Christmas Dinner are my house which my entire family attends (usually about 40 or 50 people). The dinner is a sit down dinner containing 12 different course, all not containing meat. After dinner we relax and usually sing Ukrainian Christmas carols, and eventually open our gifts. Although christmas is only once a year, we follow other family traditions through out the year...

Let it snow...

A lot of people think that we were lucky this winter with not getting as much snow as we usually do... but is that really lucky? This winter was completely bizarre, 60 and 70 degree days in January? That can't be good for the environment or even our health. Personally i love the snow, and everything that comes with it... theres nothing better than laying in bed watching movies sipping hot chocolate and just watching the snow fall, unless of course it was summertime where laying on the beach would be 100 times better, but in the wintertime theres nothing i would rather do.

Reactions to Genocide...

What do i think about geneocide? Basically my feelings are as follows... In todays day and age i cant believe that genocide is still goes on in the world. Instead of helping each other out countries that are richer and have more resources keep them to themselves to keep their country flourishing. I think that if we all worked together we could eliminate genocide and create a peaceful world.