A Tradition That I Value

One of my family’s biggest traditions that I strongly value happens on the day of New Year’s Eve. On New Year’s Eve my mother would get up at six o’clock to prepare the family New Years Eve meals. She would cook a great abundance of different kinds of snacks and meals from old family recipes. She would for instance, prepare different kinds of sausages with different varieties of chesses, and design cute little figures of stars shapes out of them. She would also have a choice of different seafood patters. She would provide crab meats, grilled shrimp, fried oysters, and shrimp tuna rolls; alongside with our family hot sauce recipe dip. Another tradition that my family carries out on New Year’s Day while we munch, is participation in family games, such as Scrabble, Pictionary and Monopoly. Also every year my mother arranges the games to her benefit and somehow managers to always win. My mother also as a tradition turnes on the T.V. to watch the New York New Years Eve ball drop. In addition, before we watch the ball drop my family cuddles on the couch, and at the same time as we sit together we shared our New Years Eve revolutions. After the ball drops my father was always the one who opens the sparkling wine and pours it into our glasses. This tradition is important to me because it’s when my family and I are all in one place. Usually on an ordinary day my family would be occupied and barely home for family time.

My IDC Mid-term Plan...

My IDC mid-term comes in two sections; therefore I have several strategies to try. The first part of the exam is a written section, and the second part is a take home essay of your choice of topic. The first part, I decided to color coded all the terms on individual note cards to keep them categorize. I personally feel that, by doing that particular strategy it will help me at my best at staying organized, because I wouldn’t have to worry about missing a word. Another approach that I am going to use for the first section, is reviewing over all my notes and texts from the beginning of the semester. I think that by doing a review it will help me refresh my memory. For the second part of the mid-term, I am going to research topics that I feel most comfortable about generally. My plan is to pick a topic that I can talk about, and write the best outline out of. I think that will do me a lot of justice, because I know you can never go wrong with an outline. I also feel that outlines are general the basic steps to writing a successful paper. Also to tie up all my strategy’s in a nut, I plan on taking each study tactic day by day before the exam day.