This Christmas I am planning on just hanging out with friends and family. Christmas isn't about getting presents its about giving them. Sometimes we get carried away with getting all the stuff we want that we forget about other people. Christmas is also about celebrating Jesus' birth. Society has kind of ruined that meaning by putting Santa and stuff in Christmas. They even started saying X-Mas crossing out Christ. I think that we need to keep Christ in Christmas. All though it isn't wrong to get presents, I think we should keep the focus on Jesus. 

In many countries, people organize parties, weeks before the Christmas day. There is often plenty to eat during this season. People also sing Christmas carols praising baby Jesus and to celebrate his life on earth. On this special day, many people often visit orphans and the homeless as Christ did when he was on earth. Christmas is one of the earliest festivals that have been celebrated for years all over the world. The time of celebration varies in different countries, in the UK, the festive runs for 12 days after the Christmas day. During this period, people feast and make merry and this ends at the ends of the twelfth day. Christmas is my favorite holiday!

    This thanksgiving break I went to arrowhead with my friend Jake. My grandma has a house up there so we stayed there. We went to the village and up into the wilderness. We went so far that the nearest house we could see was across arrowhead lake. Which was about ten miles away. We decided to build a fort. I was kind of worried because we were really far into the wilderness and didn't know how to get back home. Luckily Jake and I remembered things that were on our hike like a hub cap and a metal tube. We eventually found our way back home. 

  

    On the actual Thanksgiving day I went to a Mexican restaurant for brunch and then we had a party at  my house in the evening with family and friends. I didn't know my science project was due on Monday and my cousin asked if she could see it. I told her I didn't start it yet because I thought it was due the day before Christmas break. We franticly started working on it because we needed seven days for the crystals to grow. I was so worried that I didn't know what to do. If my cousin didn't help me I don't think I could have gotten my project done.  In the end it all worked out fine.