my favorite holiday......

My favorite holiday is Thanks Giving. Probably most people would say their favorite holiday is Christmas because of presents. I love Christmas too but Thanks Giving is my favorite holiday because my family gets together every year to have a nice turkey dinner and be thankful for the wonderful thinks we have in our lives-especially each other. I love getting together with my family. We get together at my house and talk, tell stories, laugh, and have a lot of fun.

The best part about Thanks Giving, besides being with my family, is having my mom’s homemade pecan pie. All year I wait for Thanks Giving to come so I can eat pecan pie. I’ve had pecan pie at many different places made by many different people, but nothing ever beats or has ever beaten the great sweet delicious taste of my mom’s pecan pie. I always look forward to having desert while we are eating turkey and mashed potatoes. Sometimes I can’t wait long enough so I have steal a piece before we start dinner.

After the fun dinner, we start talking and laughing again until we get sleepy and the rest of the family go back to their houses. But, since we get together at my and my parents’ house, we have to clean up all the mess. But that part is still fun because we get to talk about the stories we heard from our other family members and my dad starts telling me more stories about from when he was younger. Then, after we’re all done cleaning up and when I get tired, I go up to my room and think about all the things we did with our family and all the things we talked about. Usually I get bored from listening to old stories but on Thanks Giving it’s different. It’s hard to explain why. But being with my family is the most important part of the holiday no matter what we do.

if i were a millionaire =)

If I were a millionaire I would use my money for a good cause. I would create a company or program to help people in need but I would first take care of my family. My mom has seven siblings 3 of which still live in the Philippines. My mom, 3 of her brothers, and one of her sisters left the Philippines many years ago and came to the states. But my 2 aunts and one uncle that still live there are not nearly as fortunate as we are. I would first take care of my aunts and uncle and their children and grandchildren. I would make sure they have all the things they need like good houses and money to send the young children to school and buy food.

After taking care of my family, I would create my company to help people in need-especially children. I was in Peru this past summer with my friends and we visited two orphanages. All the children there had no families. A little girl, who was probably about 4 years old, came up to me and started playing with my monkey key chain on my Kipling shoulder bag. I felt I had to give it to her. She let me carry her and she sat in my lap when we sang a song to the kids. After we left, I felt so sad for those children who had nothing. I will use my money to make sure children without parents or family will be well taken care of and will get to have a good family.

After using my money for a good cause, I would put money away to save for my future and other important things like my future family. When I grow up, I want to have kids of my own, but I want to adopt triplets. When we were at one of the orphanages in Peru, there was a set of triplets-girls. They were so close to each other and they were afraid that they would get adopted into different families. I’m going to keep the kids that I adopt with their siblings. I’m going to save up money for my kids to go to good schools from kindergarten all the way through college. Of course I will splurge my money every once-in-a-while for fun, but I’ll make sure that I use my money wisely.

if i could choose a place to die, it would be.....

If I could choose a place to die, it would be in my bed in my aunt and uncle's house in Chicago. My uncle has already passed away but being in his house makes me feel comfortable and I know that he will be watching over me when I die and my aunt is very good at taking care of people she loves.

I want to be sick with a disease that will not make me suffer but will let me pass away peacefully. I will ask my mom, my sister, and my aunt to light candles and scented incense and place them all around the room and around my bed with the lights off. I want my bed to have purple bed sheets and a purple blanket dressed in baby roses.

While I die I will ask my aunt to read me some of my favorite children stories while I listen peacefully. I will make sure not to cause my mom, my sister and aunt too much trouble while caring for me but I will have to ask them to make everything perfect around my death bed.

I will tell my family not arrange a huge funeral and not to invite every person I know, but only our family and closest family friends. I want to die a very peaceful death-as peaceful as I can make it.

I get buried, I want to be placed in a snow white coffin with soft dark blue cushioning inside, I want my arms to be placed over my stomach and my hands will be holding a picture of my family-my mom, my dad, my sister, and myself and I want to be wearing a light purple dress with a light purple lilly in my hair. I want to die a very peaceful death.

a certain event in life

As most of my friends and all of my family know, I have a slight mental problem. I have mild epilepsy. Every once in a while I start to blank out from my surroundings like a day dream and I have a minor seizure. I know when a seizure is about to come because I get a feeling that I can’t describe in words to other people. I’m the only one who can understand this strange feeling. Up until the summer before last, my family and I didn’t know what the cause of the seizures was so I was checked into a hospital in Chicago for 5 days and I stopped taking my medication to make sure a seizure would come to find out what the cause was and where it was coming from. I was put in a hospital bed with a hospital night gown and my neurologist, or brain doctor, taped 27 wires to my scalp which connected to a machine to detect which part of my brain was triggering the seizures. After a few days, I nothing happened so I had 10 more wires attached to my scalp. It was not very pleasant. I had to lie in the bed for 5 days only getting up to use the restroom. The only thing I could do was watch TV. Finally after a few days of waiting, a seizure came and that’s when my dad and I found out that there was a vein brain bleeding in my brain. I was lucky to get out of the hospital on the day that I did because it was the day before my 15th birthday. That is one experience of my life that I will not forget. But the worst part of this experience was finding out that my problem might not go away.