T1W4 Journal Writing : Festivals

The festival I celebrate is Chinese New Year. It falls between mid January or early Febuary depending on the Chinese calender which is different from the calender we use everyday. We have fifteen days to celebrate this festival. On the eve of Chinese New Year, my family would go to my uncle's house in the afternoon to pray to our ancestors then we eat lunch. We would stay there for the whole day till 1 plus at night becauce we need to pray to the sky before 12 midnight. On the first day, after we bathe, my brother and I would greet our parents with two oranges, then we would set off to my uncle's house to greet them. At a certain time, we would set off to my first great-grandmother's house. There altough it is a one room flat, but there are walkways where we can take pictures. So i think it is a great place for phototaking. Then, we will go to my second great-grandmother's house, there will be a crowd there with food but too many people is going to cost more heat in the house. So, we youngsters will go down to the playground to play, take pictures and chat. Then we will go to my father's aunty's house who lives in a condominium with her son, daughter-in-law and her two grandchildren. We will then do to my father another aunty's house who own two units. One of them belonged to her son. There is a great place to play cards and chat. We will then go back home till night and go to my closer relative's house which was decided by one of my aunty. Yes, the muslims celebrate Hari Raya Adiltrifi because the celebrate to mark the end of their fasting month. Yes, because if one of the neighbours festival is here the neighbour can invite us to their house to celebrate with them. We can organise more campaign to encourage us to build a stronger bond between the neighbour and us.